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单词 strike
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striken.1

Brit. /strʌɪk/, U.S. /straɪk/
Forms: Middle English–1500s strik, stryk, Middle English–1600s stryke, Middle English– strike.
Etymology: < strike v. (In senses 2 – 4 perhaps < Middle Low German derivatives of the same root: compare strick n.) In early instances it is sometimes doubtful whether the word is this or strick n. or streak n.1, as the spelling strik, stryk, strick does not always indicate a short vowel, and conversely the spelling strike, stryke does not always imply that the vowel is long.
†1. A distance. Obsolete.From the rhymes the word seems to be strike, not strick.
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > a distance
strikec1330
spacea1382
lengtha1500
starta1552
a good (also great, little, long, etc.) ways1568
a ways1858
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1052 He dyde make for fens a dyk Aboute þe castel a gret stryk.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1420 In-to þe se of Aufryke þey comen, & passed a gret stryke.
2.
a. A bundle or hank of flax, hemp, etc.: = strick n. 1 [Compare Portuguese estriga.]
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > bundle of
heada1325
strikec1386
stritch14..
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > flax, hemp, or jute > bundle for heckling
strikec1386
strick14..
c1386 G. Chaucer Prol. 676 This Pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wex, But smooth it heeng as dooth a strike of flex.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 277/2 Stryke of flaxe, poupee de filace.
1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments ii. iii. 96 Then you shall say it [the hemp or flax] is brak't enough, and then tearming that which you called a baite or bundle before, now a strike, you shall lay them together.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 276 A Strike of Flax, so much as is Heckled at one handful.
1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 336 When the Flax is well scutched, take a moderate Handful of it, fold it in the Middle, plet it like a Rope, but loosely... After you have beat it for some time, open the Strike.
1794 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 49 The buyer heckles it [sc. hemp]..; he makes it into two or three sorts: long strike, short strike, and pull tow.
b. ? A handful of corn-stalks.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw
feald?14..
bottlec1405
bunch?a1505
straw wisp?a1513
stook1571
wad1573
botillage1576
windling1645
pottle1730
bolting1784
strike1817
windle1825
wap1828
hay-pack1841
wake1847
plack1871
tibbin1900
1817 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iii, in Sibylline Leaves 219 On the hedge-elms in the narrow lane Still swung the strikes [so Sibyll. Leaves; earlier version spikes] of corn.
3.
a. = strickle n. 1, strick n. 3.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [noun] > stick used for levelling
strick14..
stritch14..
strikec1425
striker1714
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 664/14 Hoc ostorium, stryke.
1474 Stat. Winch. in Coventry Leet Bk. 396 viij Buysshelles makith a Quarter, striken with a Rasid stryke, and neyther hepe nor Cantell.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Hostorium, the staffe wherwith all measures be made euen, a stryke.
1557 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 467 In every myll ther shalbe a toll dysshe..cheyned with a cheyne of iron, and a stryke of iron fast to the cheyne.
1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xxxii. §400 Bread-corne..being measured is strick'd even with a strike (strickle).
1758 in Rep. Comm. Ho. Commons II. 431 (Weights & Meas.) The Bushel is striked, and to strike it they use a round circular Strike, which is of the same Diameter from one End to the other.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 280 In connection with the bushel is the strike for sweeping off the superfluous corn above the edge of the bushel.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 457.
b. An instrument, usually a rod or narrow board, used in various trades (e.g. brickmaking, casting, plumbing, gardening) for levelling a surface by striking off the superfluous material.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > levelling
planea1425
strike1683
screed1901
screeder1915
1683 J. Houghton Coll. Lett. Improvem. Husb. II. vi. 188 We also have upon the Table..a little Trough,..and in it a Strike to run over the Mould, to make the Bricks smooth: this Strike is usually made of Firr, nine inches long, an inch and a half broad, and half inch thick.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 631 A kind of rake, called a strike, which consists of a board about 5 inches broad.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 372/1 An instrument called a strike is..provided to regulate the thickness of the sheet [of lead], and to spread the melted metal evenly over the table.
1840 Florist's Jrnl. Dec. 198 A strike, which is made of wood, about two feet longer than the width of the bed.
1850 E. Dobson Rudimentary Treat. Manuf. Bricks & Tiles i. i. 27 After which the superfluous clay is striken with a strike.
1850 E. Dobson Rudimentary Treat. Manuf. Bricks & Tiles i. iii. 71 The strike is not used at Nottingham.
1885 P. J. Davies Standard Pract. Plumbing I. 28 The Strike..is rather an important tool, made as follows.
c. Measurement by the use of the ‘strike’ (sense 3a): Struck or levelled, as opposed to heaped measure. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [noun] > stick used for levelling > measurement by
strikea1690
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > levelled measure
straik measure1549
strikea1690
handwave1801
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 70 Usage in some places hath continued Measure by heap, although some Statutes order it by Strike.
1821 Acct. Peculations Coal Trade 5 The Newcastle chaldron..by measure is 24 bolls strike... The London chaldron is 36 bushels heaped.
4. A denomination of dry measure in various parts of England (but not officially recognized since the 16th cent.); usually identical with the bushel, but in some districts equal to a half-bushel, and in others to two or four bushels. Also, the cylindrical wooden measuring vessel containing this quantity. Cf. stroke n.1 23.First recorded in Anglo French form estrike. The word is believed to have been originally used for a measure ‘struck’ or levelled with a strickle, not heaped.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units
skep1100
strike13..
strick1421
muida1425
hoop1520
tope1530
stroke1532
anker1597
corn-hoop1660
gallon1684
acherset1701
society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a pound
li.c1450
quid1661
strike1680
note1775
scrieve1821
nicker1871
saucepan lid1896
bar1911
berry1918
smacker1920
thick 'un1968
sob1970
1350–1 Rolls of Parl. II. 230/2 Et q̃ les Estrikes soient auxi bien enseales, come Bussels & autres Mesures.
1284 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/97/3) m. 11 In .vij. estrikes et .j. pecke auene.]
13.. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 81 318 Men takeþ not of a lanterne þe liht And put vndur a strik vnriht Bote on a Candelstikke on hiȝ.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 104 Salt let screue On hem, iij stryk on x strike [L. per decem modios] of oliue.
1467 Coventry Leet Bk. 334 Also they have ordenyd that the wardens Make ij strikis, ij halfe strykis, ij hopes, & let the salters have hem with-owt eny money.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viiv Two London busshels of pees, the which is but two strykes in other places.
1540 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 378 A cordyng to the Kynges Standard, after viijt gallans to the stryke.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 45 Altho he buy whole Haruests in the spring And foist in false strikes to the measuring.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. Annot. d ij A measure with us called a strike, or London bushell would have cost 4.s.
1636 R. Baker tr. Cato Variegatus 28 Hees no good Husbandman, that will mislike: To sowe a Pynte where he may reape a strike.
1680 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 452 He measures his money by strikes, Nummos modio metitur.
1681 in Reliquary (1862) III. 100 Paid for gathering 208 Strikes of acornes, 03 09 06.
1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. vi. 11 In Shape, most like That Measure which we call a Strike.
1759 R. Brown Compl. Farmer 57 A strike, which is a bushel measure fill'd only to the edges.
1811 P. Kelly Universal Cambist I. 259 A Last contains..40 Strikes or 80 Bushels.
1868 E. Peacock Myrc's Instr. Notes 81 In the Isle of Axholme,..a bushel is not, as elsewhere, one-eighth of a quarter, but double that measure. The strike or half-bushel represents there the legal bushel of eight pecks.
†5. The unit proportion of malt in ale or beer. Also of the first strike = of the highest strength: said of ale. Obsolete. Cf. straik n.1 2.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > [noun] > unit proportion of malt
strike1616
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [adjective] > qualities
cornyc1386
foggy1619
well-wrought1626
slape1671
notty1725
of the first strike1819
yeast-bitten1829
beaded1884
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie v. sig. I3v Thou miserable man, repent, and brew three strikes more in a hogshed.
1702 J. Floyer Anc. Ψυχρολουσία Revived iv. 129 We must use..more moderate vinose Liquors, Beer of three or four Strike at Meals.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. x. 267 Our cellarer shall have orders to deliver to thee a butt of sack..and three hogsheads of ale of the first strike, yearly.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iv. 157 An hogshead of ale at Marttemas, of the double strike.
6. An act of striking.
a. An act of striking a blow; of a snake, the act of darting at its prey.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > delivery of blow
liverya1375
castc1420
duncha1500
braidc1500
strike1587
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > act of darting at prey
strike1879
1587 W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 69 Sche suddenlye hir visage did from his [sc. Cupid's] strykes so hyde, that [etc.].
1638 A. Johnston Diary (1911) I. 325 The Almighty..hes many arroues in his quyver to peirce the at the heart if the first stryk in thy flesch move the not.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxviii She [the dog] had drawn herself ahead, and made a bold strike at the kangaroo, but missed him.
1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 50 This brute [a snake]..made a strike at my boot as I was in the very act of taking it off.
1902 ‘M. Fairless’ Roadmender 7 With the snake there is the swift, silent strike, the tiny, tiny wound, then sleep and a forgetting.
figurative.1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iii. iv. 166 It had been determined..to make one bold strike that evening, and, by brute force, to set Joanna free.
b. The striking of a clock, or of the clapper of a bell.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > striking or stroke
stroke1436
beat1706
strike1871
grande sonnerie1932
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > striking of clock or clapper
stroke1436
strike1871
1871 H. T. Ellacombe Pract. Remarks Belfries & Ringers (ed. 3) 38 The way to cure a clapper of rearing, or doubling its strike, is to lengthen the flight.
1903 B. Harraden Kathleen Frensham 47 We go on adjusting our lives and emotions to the strike of the parish clock.
†c. strike of day n. daybreak. Obsolete or spurious. [If genuine, perhaps referring to the striking of the hour. But possibly a mistake of Grose (followed by Dickens) for shrike of day (skrike n. 2). Compare streak n.1 3.]
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
day-rowa1300
grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Suppl. Strike of Day, break of day.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. iv. 168 I could sen nommore if I was to speak till Strike o' day.
d. Infestation of a sheep or cow with flies whose larvæ burrow into the skin; an occurrence of this. Frequently with preceding noun.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > parasitic
wormc1000
botc1465
canker1753
heartworm1877
strongylosis1883
surra1883
psorospermosis1894
nagana1895
tsetse-fly disease1895
babesiasis1907
babesiosis1907
strike1932
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > other disorders
shotc1500
foul?1523
redwater1594
blacklega1722
garget1725
dunt1784
black water1800
cothe1800
fardel-bound1825
navel ill1834
bluetongue1867
heartwater1880
orf1890
tick-borne fever1921
strike1932
1932 Jrnl. Dept. Agric. S. Austral. Aug. 115 (title) Blowfly strike in sheep and the ‘Mules’ operation for reducing the incidence.
1933 Council Sci. & Ind. Res. Pamphlet No. 37 ii. 17 Though death following blowfly strike is not uncommon, its actual causation has never been thoroughly investigated.
1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Sept. 22/1 The C.S.I.R. regards dipping in the light of only ‘perhaps rendering the sheep less favorable for strike, but a measure not to be relied upon’.
1937 A. Fraser Sheep Farming xv. 143 When the weather favours strike..the maggot fly may cause hundreds of pounds worth of damage.]
1952 I. E. Newsom Sheep Dis. vi. 140 In South Africa..L[ucilia] cuprina is thought to be responsible for 90 per cent of the strikes either alone or in combination with other flies.
1972 TV Vet Sheep Bk. xlviii. 143/1 In Britain strike usually starts when the lambs start scouring.
1975 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 65/1 One measure for blowflies' resistance to insecticides is the time that it takes, after a spray or dip, for implanted larvae to establish a strike.
1977 Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Jan. 16/3 The blowfly costs rural industry $70 million a year in sheep and cattle strike.
e. A sudden military attack concentrated on selected targets; also occasionally concrete, the force used in such an attack. Also (chiefly with reference to the use of nuclear weapons) preceded by a qualifying word, as first-strike, pre-emptive strike, second strike: see under the first elements.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]
fiend-reseOE
frumresec1275
assault1297
sault1297
inracea1300
sailing13..
venuea1330
checkc1330
braid1340
affrayc1380
outrunningc1384
resinga1387
wara1387
riota1393
assailc1400
assayc1400
onset1423
rake?a1425
pursuitc1425
assemblinga1450
brunta1450
oncominga1450
assembly1487
envaya1500
oncomea1500
shovea1500
front1523
scry1523
attemptate1524
assaulting1548
push1565
brash1573
attempt1584
affront?1587
pulse1587
affret1590
saliaunce1590
invasion1591
assailment1592
insultation1596
aggressa1611
onslaught1613
source1616
confronta1626
impulsion1631
tentative1632
essaya1641
infall1645
attack1655
stroke1698
insult1710
coup de main1759
onfall1837
hurrah1841
beat-up of quarters1870
offensive1887
strafe1915
grand slam1916
hop-over1918
run1941
strike1942
1942 [see strike patrol n. at Compounds 1b(a)].
1943 ‘T. Dudley-Gordon’ Coastal Command ii. 16 When the Admiralty desires a special reconnaissance or strike to be ‘laid on’.
1943 Yank 19 Nov. 3 But, when the last strike returned, there were no bullet holes, no torn fabric and the pilots climbed out unhurt.
1945 Times 3 May 3/3 Destroyers of the East Indies Fleet bombarded airfields..and followed this up with an air strike.
1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 520 The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western hemisphere.
1972 Newsweek 10 Jan. 1/1 Described by the Pentagon as ‘protective-reaction’ strikes, the bombings in fact signaled to the world the continuing U.S. interest in Southeast Asia.
1979 H. Kissinger White House Years xxiii. 983 The Son Tay raid was accompanied by a two-day strike by 200 airplanes against North Vietnamese supply installations.
f. bird-strike: see bird strike n. at bird n. Compounds 2a.
7. Fishing.
†a. ? A place where salmon are speared. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for salmon > place
salmon fishing1588
strikea1828
a1828 T. Bewick Mem. (1862) 222 I was frequently sent by my parents to purchase a salmon from the fishers of the ‘strike’ at Eltringham ford.
b. The jerk by which the angler secures a fish that is already hooked.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > angling > strike
strike1840
1840 J. Younger River Angling (1860) 88 [This motion is wrongly named: it is] rather a retentive hold than a start, or a strike.
1892 Field 19 Mar. 402/1 Once the salmon has gone down head foremost with the fly, there is no reason to delay the strike.
c. A large capture (of fish).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fish to be caught or as catch > [noun] > catch of fish
draughta1387
waithing1488
hale1572
tack1596
take1626
catch1792
haul1854
taking1855
fare1884
strike1887
voyage1897
shack1904
1887 H. Caine Deemster I. x. 207 No ‘strike’ was made.
1894 R. Leighton Wreck Golden Fleece 36 The best strike of herrins be always at the moon-risin'.
1905 Daily Chron. 3 Oct. 4/5 When there is a ‘strike,’ and the movement of the buoys that support the nets show that a shoal has become enmeshed [etc.].
8. Mining and Geology. The horizontal course of a stratum; direction with regard to the points of the compass. Cf. streak n.1 5, stretch n. 9.Probably, as stated in a footnote to the first passage quoted below, a recent adoption from German. The German word is streichen, the infinitive of the verb corresponding to strike v.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > position or direction of strata
streak1672
stretch1799
strike1829
stroke1877
1829 A. Sedgwick & Murchison in Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd Ser. III. 337 The range or strike of this series is from E.N.E. to W.S.W.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 346 In Europe the strike of the beds is not always parallel to the direction of the chain.
1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. 291 The direction of the bed is called, in Geological language, the strike, and the inclination, the dip.
1888 J. J. H. Teall Brit. Petrogr. 448 Strike—The strike of a bed is the direction (expressed by reference to the points of the compass) of the line formed by the intersection of the plane of the bed with the plane of the horizon.
in extended use.1883 Nature 22 Feb. 395/2 The main strike of the auroræ is magnetic east-west.
9.
a. A concerted cessation of work on the part of a body of workers, for the purpose of obtaining some concession from the employer or employers. Formerly sometimes more explicitly strike of work. Cf. strike v. 24, 24b Phrase, on strike, also (U.S.) on a strike. Frequently with preceding qualifying word, as general strike, outlaw strike, selective strike, sit-down strike, stay-away (-down, -in) strike, sympathetic strike, wildcat strike: see under the first elements. Also figurative.The noun, together with the related sense of the verb, has been adopted into several European languages: German streik, Dutch strijk, Swedish strejk.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike
turn-out1806
strike1810
steek1812
standout1826
stickout1845
walkout1881
stoppage1902
jack-up1945
society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike > sudden or unofficial strike
outlaw strike1810
walkout1881
unofficial strike1894
lightning strike1913
wildcat strike1937
wildcat stoppage1942
rag-out1953
wild cat1959
wild-catting1969
society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike > other types of strike
stay-away1867
sympathetic strike1899
stay-in1915
sympathy strike1937
token strike1947
hiccup strike1950
token stoppage1954
stay-at-home1959
1810 Docum. Hist. Amer. Industrial Soc. (1910) III. 370 The Society, in November 1809, ordered a general strike.
1815 Docum. Hist. Amer. Industrial Soc. (1910) IV. 42 It appeared there was a strike for higher wages.
1825 Edinb. Rev. 43 14 Combinations and strikes of work may be necessary..to bring things sooner to their proper level.
1830 Poor Man's Guardian 31 Dec. 8/1 It has been determined at a meeting of delegates, appointed by the spinners in the different parts of the country, that a general strike shall take place on Monday, the 27th instant, of all spinners who are receiving less that 4s. 2d. per 1000 hanks.
1850 Athenæum 7 Dec. 1282/3 Three hundred men on strike have taken a mill!
1881 Chicago Times 14 May The employés of the Grand Trunk car shops are on a strike for an advance in wages.
1899 C. Plummer Two Saxon Chrons. Parallel II. 289 Simeon of Durham..represents the enactment as causing a sort of clerical strike.
1907 R. Dunn Shameless Diary of Explorer xv. 201 Miller's stomach went on strike after we washed in the glacier stream.
b. transferred. A concerted abstention from a particular economic, physical, or social activity on the part of persons who are attempting to obtain a concession from an authority or to register a protest; esp. in hunger strike, rent strike (see hunger n. Compounds 5, rent n.1 Compounds 1c).
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > fasting > [noun] > hunger-striking
hunger strike1889
hunger-striking1916
the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > [noun] > a protest > strike
strike1889
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > protest > by abstention from specific activity
strike1889
hunger strike1908
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > demonstration > types of demonstration or protest
counterprotest1595
student demonstration1856
lie-in1867
rent strike1881
hunger strike1889
march1908
protest march1914
occupation1920
lie-down1936
sit-down1936
sit-in1936
freedom march1947
vigil1956
freedom walk1957
swim-in1960
freedom ride1961
sitting in1961
sleep-out1961
fish-in1964
live-in1964
stall-in1964
sleep-in1965
Long March1967
love-in1967
talk-in1967
write-in1967
die-in1970
dirty protest1979
blanket protest1982
1889 Cent. Mag. Nov. 107/2 Here I heard..the narrative of the hunger-strike of the four women in the prison of Irkutsk.
1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 220 Ive told our last four Prime Ministers that if they didnt make our marriage laws reasonable there would be a strike against marriage.
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 10/4 People with fixed incomes necessarily buy less. There are indignation meetings and ‘buyers' strikes’.
1937 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Aug. 8/1 The falling birth rate indicates that ‘mankind cannot be forced or bribed to produce children’... The present ‘birth strike’ will continue until necessary social readjustments are effected.
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Jan. 22/1 Forty-eight tenants of an apartment building..started a ‘strike’ January 1, demanding rent reductions.
1965 B. Pearce tr. E. Preobrazhensky New Econ. 167 A consumers' strike is the limit which arises to state planning whenever the state's prices exceed the level acceptable to the private market.
1970 N.Y. Times 5 Feb. 38/6 The student organization also is lending moral and organizational support to..a widespread local rent strike.
1976 Gramophone Dec. 1052/1 The Lysistrata plot about the women stopping a war by going on sexual strike.
10. A last ploughing before the sowing. local.
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1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 402 Strike is also a mode of plowing. We call it back-striking.
1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 6 First year making the fallow, three whole tilths, and one strike, at 8s., 1l. 8s. 0d.
11. An act of ‘striking oil’ (see strike v. 68d); a discovery of a rich vein of ore in mining. Similarly, the sudden discovery of an accumulation of natural gas. Also figurative a stroke of success. Originally U.S.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > that which is successful > a successful stroke
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1852 L. Clappe Lett. from Calif. (1922) 131 They are always longing for big strikes [of gold].
1855 H. R. Helper Land of Gold 296 I may make a ‘strike’, but that is mere speculation.
1864 Harper's Mag. Dec. 59/2 It is certain that great oil-strikes are no longer looked for.
1883 Cent. Mag. July 330/1 A restless, speculative person,..now making a lucky strike, and now sinking all his available means in a dry hole.
1895 Daily News 13 Sept. 2/5 Langlaagte Estate Gold... The supervising director writes that the strike at the sixth level is really grand.
1901 Munsey's Mag. 24 841 Mr. Grau made a strike with his first novelty, ‘La Bohème’.
12. In certain games.
a. Ten-pins and Ninepins. The knocking down of all the pins with the first bowl. Also figurative. U.S.
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1859 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 641 Strike: terms of the game of nine-pins.
1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. xlvi To make a strike is to knock down all the pins with one ball, hence it has come to mean fortunate, successful.
1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 299/2 Strikes and spares were less common.
1939 H. Miller Cosmological Eye 219 Of Human Bondage was a great book, he thought. I thought so too and I scored another strike for the constable on my mental blackboard.
1958 Economist 20 Dec. 1085/1 If he succeeds in spilling all ten pins with one ball, this is called a ‘strike’, and the bowler is credited with ten points in that particular section of the game (each such section is called a ‘frame’).
1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c. 8/3 Marge opened her third game with nine strikes in a row, but left the 5-9 pins on her first ball in the 10th frame on the way to her 275 game and 614 series.
b. Baseball.
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(a) An act of striking at the ball, characterized as a fair or foul strike (see quot. 1874); three ‘foul strikes’ cause the batter to be put out.
(b) A ‘foul strike’, or any act or shortcoming on the batter's part which incurs the same penalty. Hence, a pitched ball recorded against the batter; esp. as one of three counts against the batter.
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strike1874
1841 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 25 May 2/2 If ‘Edith’ wishes to see ‘a great strike’.., let her walk down Water street..and see the ‘bachelors’ make the ball fly.
1845 in Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1885 (1886) 77/2 Players must take their strike in regular turn.
1856 Spirit of Times 22 Nov. 197/2 The striker should also be compelled to run on such occasions, strike or no strike.
1867 Ball Players' Chron. 4 July 6/2 Their batting was of a superior character, two of their players..each making some powerful strikes.
1868 H. Chadwick Base Ball Player's Bk. Reference 75 Mills called ‘one strike’ on him.
1874 H. Chadwick Base Ball Man. 105 A fair strike. The batsman, when in the act of striking at the ball, must stand within the lines of his position... A foul strike. Should the batsman, when in the act of striking at the ball, step outside the lines of his position, the umpire must call ‘foul strike’.
1891 N. Crane Baseball 76 Every ball that is not hit by the batsman must be a ‘strike’ or a ‘ball’.
1896 R. G. Knowles & M. Morton Baseball 103 Strike.—When the batsman tries and fails to hit a ball delivered to him by the pitcher, or refuses to strike at a fair ball.
1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch 12 It put me in the hole with the count two balls and one strike.
1942 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Apr. 18/7 The machine will throw 75 per cent more strikes in a given number of pitches than a human.
1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 19 Apr. 4 b/7 The Citadel scored on a missed third strike and two errors.
(c) figurative. Usually preceded by a numeral or enumerative adjective and constructed with against or †on. Something to one's discredit, a black mark.
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1938 New Republic 26 Jan. 336/1 All movements for social good will..have two strikes on them before they start.
a1939 in E. J. Nichols Hist. Dict. Baseball Terminol. (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Pennsylvania State College) App. I, p. iv You therefore are starting with two strikes against him. It's up to you to hit one into the bleachers and send yourself home.
1943 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 31 May 3196/2 I am a little afraid that a man who approaches that board claiming exemption as a conscientious objector goes to bat with three strikes against him.
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues xxi. 189 The only evidence they've got is on me. I've got one strike against me.
1962 J. Glenn in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 16 I knew that I might have a couple of small strikes against me... I was not a college graduate... Also..I was probably a little older than most of the men NASA was considering.
1968 Globe & Mail Mag. (Toronto) 13 Jan. 3/2 The student council also did nothing. Strike one for student power.
1975 Listener 13 Feb. 204/1 One of the main strikes against Ted Heath was that he did not ‘come over’ on the box.
1979 ‘S. Woods’ This Fatal Writ 129 The discovery of your man, injured, would have been an additional strike against him.
c. Cricket. The right of the batter to receive the next ball. Also without article.
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strike1886
1886 Cricket 20 May 137/1 Seeing over sixty runs scored, he, strange to relate, did not succeed in getting a strike.
1955 I. Peebles Ashes xii. 125 Maddocks was run out..when trying to farm the strike.
1963 A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 83 He played McKenzie fine of Harvey at cover, called euphorically, in an effort to keep the strike, for a second, and was run out.
1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 57 Geoff Boycott took first strike leaving ‘Ollie’ [Milburn] at the non-striker's end.
d. American Football. A forward pass, straight into the hands of the receiver.
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1947 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 9 Nov. b7/7 Brown threw a perfect ‘strike’ to Elliott on the 10-yard ribbon, but the lanky freshman end dropped the ball.
1972 J. Mosedale Football v. 72 To this strike-tossing forward passer..went the plaudits of the nation.
13. U.S. Political slang. (See quots.)
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strike1885
1885 Cent. Mag. Apr. 824/2 When a member introduces a bill hostile to some moneyed interest, with the expectation of being paid to let the matter drop... [This proceeding is] technically called a ‘strike’.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw.
1894 H. C. Merwin in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 247/1 A ‘strike’ is a measure brought forward simply for purposes of blackmail.
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†14. slang. ‘Twenty shillings’ (Grose Dict. Vulgar T., ed. 2, 1788).
15. Printing. (See quots.)
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1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 149/1 Drives are also sometimes called strikes, or the originals of matrices.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 753/1 Drive, a matrix formed by a steel punch, die, or drift.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 134 Strikes, a term for type matrices struck from the original punches.
1900 H. Hart Cent. Typogr. p. viii Nowadays a type-founder..would be able..to buy ‘strikes’, which when justified would become matrices—the punches being left in the hands of the proprietor for the production of more ‘strikes’.
16. Sugar Manufacturing. See quot. 1864. (Cf. strike v. 21b.)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > process in manufacture
clay1765
claying1822
striking-tache1830
potting1839
strike1847
touch proof1909
turbinage1909
1847 W. J. Evans Sugar-planter's Man. 152 The time required for taking off a strike containing fourteen moulds of fifty pounds each was two hours.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Strike of sugar, (a) the act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane-juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers; (b) the quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.
1887 Cent. Mag. Nov. 114/1 When sufficiently boiled, the thick syrup is called the ‘masse cuite’. The ‘strike’ is now done, air is admitted to the pan, and the contents are run off into the ‘mixer’.
17. Coining. ‘The whole amount struck at one time.’
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1891 Cent. Dict.
18. Soap-making. The proper crystalline or mottled appearance of a soap, indicating complete saponification.
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1884 A. Watt Art of Soap-making 50 The leys are made from..black ash, the impurities in which give the mottled or marbled ‘strike’ for which this variety of soap is famed.
1885 W. L. Carpenter Treat. Manuf. Soap 12 The appearances known as ‘grain’ or ‘strike’ in a hard soap..are due to the crystalline character of soap.
†19. ? A strip or band (of metal). Obsolete. rare.Possibly the word may belong to streak n.1, or may be misprinted. The passage (copied by Weever and some other authors) is the origin of the sense ‘stanchion or pale in a fence or gate’ given by some dictionaries.
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1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 260 There were 9. Tombes of Alabaster and Marble, inuironed with strikes of Iron in the Quire, and one Tombe in the bodie of the church also coped with yron.

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C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 3c.)
strike bushel n.
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1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks I. i. 12 Young Tudor had produced a very smart paper on the merits—or demerits—of the strike bushel.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands App. B. 577 It may be worth stating that the Guernsey heaped bushel is nearly equivalent to the imperial strike bushel.
strike measure n.
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1766 Museum Rusticum 6 264 More frequently a fraud, in the construction of measures of that kind, where heap, and not strike measure, is the custom.
b. (In sense 6e.)
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strike aeroplane n.
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1965 New Scientist 22 Apr. 217/1 The Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer naval strike aeroplane might be modified to suit the RAF.
strike aircraft n.
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1957 Times 22 Aug. 6/6 The supersonic strike aircraft which Hawker Aircraft are developing as a private venture.
1957 Times 22 Aug. 6/6 The fact that it is described as a strike aircraft indicates that it can be used as a bomber as well as a fighter.
1980 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 4/8 Iraqi transport aircraft have been withdrawn to the safety of bases in Jordan, beyond the reach of Iran's strike aircraft.
strike carrier n.
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1966 Daily Tel. 18 Aug. 1/4 ‘Straight Laced’ is the first multinational strike-carrier exercise for some years.
strike Command n.
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1968 Ann. Reg. 1967 27 The White Paper envisaged..the merging of the RAF's Fighter and Bomber Command into a new Strike Command.
strike patrol n.
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1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 18 ‘Strike’ and ‘rover’ patrols were on the board every day.
strike power n.
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1959 Time 23 Feb. 22/3 U.S. strike power is clearly supreme now.
strike trainer n.
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1967 Observer 26 Nov. 2/6 The Jaguar strike-trainer which was born..in the Anglo-French agreement of 1965.
strike wing n.
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1944 Hansard Commons 7 Mar. 1910 In conjunction with the strike wings of Coastal Command and R.A.F. fighters our Light Forces have constantly attacked enemy convoys in the Channel.
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strike-attack n.
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1977 R.A.F. News 11 May 1/5 The two squadrons operate in the same maritime strike attack role.
strike-reconnaissance n.
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1963 Times 2 Feb. 9/2 Adopting American nuclear warheads for its strike-reconnaissance aircraft missiles defending the North American continent.
c. (In sense 8.)
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strike-fault n.
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1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 303/1 Faults..are classified as dip-faults and strike-faults.
1894 R. S. Tarr Econ. Geol. U.S. 50 When the horizontal direction of a fault plane is in the direction of the dip of the strata, the fault is a dip fault; when at right angles to this, a strike fault.
strike-joint n.
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1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 297/1 The former set is known as dip-joints,..the latter is termed strike-joints.
strike vein n.
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1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 241 The strike-vein is north and south.
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strike-faulting n.
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1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 299 There is considerable evidence of strike-faulting which would explain this.
1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. iii. 30/2 Some ore was won from a 390 ft shaft, but both strike- and cross~faulting seem to have disrupted the lode.
d. (In sense 9.)
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strike action n.
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1949 Britannica Bk. of Year 606/2 Minority groups..threatening and, from time to time, taking strike action by way of protest.
1977 M. Edelman Polit. Lang. vii. 131 Wage demands their fellow workers would otherwise be free to back with strike action if necessary.
strike benefit n.
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1896 Rep. Proc. Internat. Typogr. Union N. Amer. 22/1 $48,087.18..[were] paid during the two years in strike and lockout benefits.
strike call n.
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1976 Times 24 Aug. 1/4 Thousands of people in Soweto heeded a call not to go to work... Whether the mass stay-away..reflected widespread support for the strike call is unclear.
strike committee n.
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1949 Britannica Bk. of Year 210/2 The men's allegiance to the strike committee outweighed their loyalty to the union.
strike fund n.
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1906 Daily Chron. 17 May 4/7 The earliest mention of a strike fund occurred in the strike of the Parisian stocking-weavers in 1724.
strike leader n.
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1913 W. Owen Let. 19 Oct. (1967) 201 You should set up as Suffragette, Dublin-Strike-Leader, or Schoolmistress, so that you would be obliged to speak for seven hours a day.
1978 P. Boardman Worlds of Patrick Geddes vii. 246 The strike leader had the reputation of being a dangerous man.
strike meeting n.
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1926 Brit. Gaz. 12 May 1/7 Large crowds of them congregated in the streets, while some abortive strike meetings were held in the squares.
strike money n.
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1913 D. H. Lawrence in Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 2/2 Strike~money is paid in the Primitive Methodist Chapel.
strike movement n.
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1932 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Sept. 8/3 The certain futility of the ‘strike’ movement.
strike notice n.
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1926 Brit. Gaz. 12 May 2/2 The Weston Mercury, Weston-super-Mare, reports that after strike notices had been received the local branch of the Typographical Association decided to return to work.
strike record n.
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1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 614/1 In 1936 there were but 156 strikes..; a rather typical strike record for Canada.
strike wave n.
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1957 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 469/1 The strike waves that accompanied the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
strike weapon n.
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1955 Times 26 May 11/5 The apparently indiscriminate use of the strike weapon.
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strike-free adj.
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1947 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Jan. 17/1 If operations are strike-free, enough steel can be turned out to restore within a few months a balance between supply and demand.
1982 Times 23 Mar. 8/7 The reductions in strike-free days.
strike-happy adj.
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1955 Times 26 May 11/5 We are being placed on a par with other ‘strike~happy’ industries.
strike-prone adj.
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1961 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 9/2 The strike-prone motor industry.
strike-ridden adj.
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1967 Spectator 8 Dec. 706/2 Two of our favourite illusions are that we are among the most strike-ridden nations on earth, and that every strike brings chaos in its wake.
strike-torn adj.
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1977 Belfast Tel. 28 Feb. 7/9 The crisis at strike-torn Leyland deepened.
e. (In sense 16.)
strike-heater n.
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1903 Longman's Mag. Nov. 76 After repeated skimming and filtration, the juice is ready for the strike-pans, whence it is discharged by valves into the strike-heaters—double-lined cauldrons supplied with steam enough to keep the sugar hot until crystallisation is reached.
strike-pan n.
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1903Strike-pan: [see strike-heater n.].
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† strike-block n. [= Dutch strijkblok] Carpentry Obsolete (see quot. 1678).
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beading plane1858
bead-plane1858
fluting-plane1864
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shooting-plane1875
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shoulder plane1935
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 66 The Strike-Block..is a Plain shorter than the Joynter,..and is used for the shooting of a short Joynt.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 245 The Strike-Block Plane.
strike-bound adj. immobilized by a strike.
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1949 Britannica Bk. of Year 687/1 Strike-bound, prevented from moving, travelling, sailing etc. by a strike or strikes.
1956 B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 121 The editors of strike-bound national dailies and periodicals.
1982 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. 22/4 Strike-bound Sealink ships have..moored at the two Holyhead berths.
strike-break v. (intransitive) .
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1961 Economist 6 May 525/1 Individual exporters and importers should be allowed to send their own staff in to get their own goods on and off the ships, if their staff will agree to strike-break in this way.
strike-breaker n. a workman who consents to work for an employer whose workmen are on strike, thus contributing to the defeat of the strike.
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faller-out1964
1904 N.Y. Evening Post 4 Aug. 2 [Half of] the strike breakers are men who, having been idle for a time, simply wanted a chance to make a little ready money.
1905 Daily Chron. 4 May The strikers made repeated attacks on the ‘strike-breakers’.
strike-breaking n. the action of a strike-breaker; also as adj.
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blacklegging1840
strike-breaking1905
scabbing1944
1905 Leslie's Monthly Mag. May 107/2 It is quite a new profession, this strike breaking, a curious evolution of modern industrial methods.
1920 Manch. Guardian News Bull. 10 Sept. 2/1 A direct incitement to strike-breaking.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters x. 362 The police sent an armed convoy to escort a strikebreaking truck.
strike force n. (a) a military force equipped to deliver a (nuclear) strike; (b) a police unit organized for rapid and effective action against crime.
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armed police1787
special police1804
detective force1849
traffic police1883
vice squad1905
drug squad1913
blue force1920
ghost squad1922
flying squad1927
Sweeney1936
morality squad1945
courtesy patrol1961
strike force1961
pussy posse1963
drugs squad1965
vice1967
mobile1971
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uniform1978
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for attack > nuclear
strike force1961
force de frappe1962
1961 Listener 14 Dec. 1011/2 The development of nuclear strike forces by Britain and France.
1973 Black Panther 1 Sept. 11/2 Federal and local strike forces smashed into homes and offices in a series of pre-dawn raids.
strike-furrow plough n. = strike plough n.
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strike plough1789
tommy plough1814
tom-plough1833
strike-furrow plough1846
lister1887
1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 353 When the plough was prepared for seed-sowing, the aures were put to it, so that it then resembled our strike-furrow plough.
† strike iron n. Obsolete ? malleable iron.
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wrought iron1556
strike iron1814
weld-iron1881
forge1890
1814 Sporting Mag. 43 269 A large quantity of these shears made out of strike iron.
strike pay n. the periodical payment made by a trade-union for the support of men on strike.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payments made by trade unions
strike paya1878
sacrifice allowance1891
dispute benefit1892
a1878 in G. Howell Confl. Capital & Labour vii. 344 The men who receive what is called ‘strike pay’.
1891 Spectator 13 June Whether these conditions are satisfied, it is not for us to say, though..the scale of strike-pay does not suggest an overflowing exchequer.
strike plough n. (see quot. 1856).
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strike plough1789
tommy plough1814
tom-plough1833
strike-furrow plough1846
lister1887
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 123 I took a common strike plough.
1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/1 Strike-plough (Sussex), double-mould board plough.
strike-slip n. Geology (originally U.S.) the component of the slip of a fault in a horizontal direction, parallel to the strike; also as adv.; frequently attributive, esp. in strike-slip fault, a fault in which motion was predominantly parallel to the strike.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > slip in horizontal
heave1802
strike-slip1913
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > other types of fault
heave1802
reversed fault1852
reverse fault1865
step-fault1879
ring fracture1881
overfault1883
overlap fault1883
overthrust1883
trough fault1883
thrust1888
thrust-fault1889
offset1897
cross-fault1900
tear-fault1900
distributive fault1904
cross-break1909
slide1910
strike-slip fault1913
rift1921
splay fault1942
wrench fault1951
megashear1954
transform fault1965
transform1971
1913 W. Lindgren Mineral Deposits ix. 121 The strike-slip is the component of the slip parallel with the fault slip.
1913 W. Lindgren Mineral Deposits ix. 126 The expressions ‘normal’ and ‘reverse’ may be used in connection with oblique and dip faults, even when these are strike-slip or oblique slip faults.
1932 C. R. Longwell et al. Textbk. Geol. i. xii. 315 (caption) Broken lines show the displacement (slip), and its three components—throw, heave, and strike-slip—measured along axes at right angles to each other.
1964 W. C. Putnam Geol. vi. 146/2 Ordinarily, in order to establish whether or not movement has been strike-slip or dip-slip, it is necessary to have layered rocks with strongly differing dips cut by the fault.
1964 W. C. Putnam Geol. vi. 147/1 The actual movement as demonstrated by the outcrop was strike-slip.
1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xxiii. 327/2 The San Andreas is called a strike-slip fault.
1977 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Apr. 36/2 In Mongolia most earthquakes are associated with strike-slip faulting.
strike zone n. Baseball an imaginary rectangle 17 inches wide, stretching from the height of the batter's armpits to that of his knees, within which the pitcher must throw the ball for the pitch to be called a strike.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > batting > strike zone
strike zone1948
1948 Sporting News Dope Bk. 119 The umpire shall rule it a ball even though it passed over the heart of the plate within the strike zone.
1950 Official Baseball Rules ii. 17 The strike zone is that space over home plate which is between the batter's armpits and the top of his knees when he assumes his natural stance.

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Originally and chiefly U.S. three (also one, two) strikes and you're out and variants: a statement of the baseball rule applied more generally to any law or regulation which allows for the specified number of infractions before a severe penalty is imposed (spec. in U.S. Law). Frequently attributive: designating or relating to such a measure.
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1912 N.Y. Times 30 June 16/6 This was the third of the Commoner's [sc. William Jennings Bryan's] appearances at this convention, and if the game were being played according to the rules it would be ‘three strikes and out’.
1949 N.Y. Times 28 Mar. 27/2 As to Indian Service personnel, it was recommended that the rule on misfits be ‘three strikes and out’, which was explained as no more than two major assignments ‘muffed’.
1990 Dallas Morning News 23 Nov. 28 a/1 Manley was given a lifetime suspension from the National Football League for violating the league's ‘three strikes, you're out’ drug policy.
1993 Wall St. Jrnl. 4 Nov. a14/1 We are likely now to see the spread of measures such as ‘Three Strikes and You're Out’, which passed Tuesday by a whopping margin of 76% to 24%... The measure provides that persons convicted of three major felonies go to prison forever, no parole.
1995 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 5 Sept. A police force is reviving a 93-year-old law in an attempt to drive persistent drunks off the streets with a ‘three strikes and you're out’ policy..to make it an offence to sell alcohol to anyone convicted of drink-related offences three times in a year.
2000 Independent 9 Mar. i. 1/1 The Chancellor will implement the ‘two strikes and out’ policy used by some states in the US, where fraudsters are stopped from receiving benefits for a set time.

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three strikes adj. (similarly one strike, two strikes etc.; also with strike) originally and chiefly U.S. designating or relating to the punishment of a third (also first, second, etc.) offence by a severe penalty (spec. in U.S. Law). Also occasionally as n.
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1984 M. Ivins in Nation 13 Oct. 345/1 We got a three-strikes law here—three felonies and it's life—so we got guys doing terminal stretches for passing two bad checks and aggravated mopery.
1994 Time 7 Feb. 29/2 [He] knows that the true danger of feel-good bromides like ‘three strikes’ is that they create the illusion of problem solving.
1995 Denver Post 5 Nov. a2/1 Ito faced..a three-strikes robbery case against a man who allegedly had stolen a handful of rings.
1997 National Rev. (Electronic ed.) 1 Sept. 22 Miller's efforts in gaining passage of welfare reform and a ‘two strikes’ law made GOP voters more comfortable with him.
2000 N.Y. Times 23 Sept. d8/1 The Romanian [weight-lifting] team was booted from the Olympics last week as part of a ‘three strikes rule’, which means automatic expulsion for an entire team if three of its athletes test positive for banned substances in one year.
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striken.2

error for stike, stick n.1 20.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > quantity of fish
stickOE
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a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) ii. i. i. 66 Eeles, In 1 Bind, 10 Strikes, In 1 Strike 25 Eeles.
1694 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 18) iii. ii. 385.
1891 Cent. Dict. Strike, n.18, same as Stick3 10.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

strikev.

Brit. /strʌɪk/, U.S. /straɪk/
Forms: Past tense struck; past participle struck; also archaic exc. U.S. (esp. in legal use) stricken. Forms: infinitive and present stem Old English strícan, Middle English–1600s strik, Middle English–1500s stryke, Middle English–1600s stryk, Middle English Scottish stirk(e, Middle English–1600s stricke, 1500s stryck(e, 1500s–1700s strick, 1600s Scottish streck, Middle English– strike. past tense singular Old English strác, Middle English strac, Middle English, 1500s–1700s Scottish strak, 1600s Scottish strack, Middle English–1700s strake, Middle English straak, Middle English–1500s Scottish straik, 1500s Scottish strayk; β. Middle English–1600s strok, stroke, Middle English strocke, Middle English–1600s stroak(e, Middle English–1800s strook, 1500s–1600s strooke, 1500s stroock, stroucke, Scottish struke, struik(e, 1600s strucke, 1600s– struck; γ. Middle English strek, Middle English streke; δ. 1600s stricke; ε. weak Middle English striked, Middle English–1500s stryked, 1500s stryckt. past tense plural Old English stricon, Middle English striken. past participle Old English stricen, Middle English strikyn, Middle English–1500s stryken, strykyn, (Middle English strykyne), Middle English–1600s striken, Middle English strikon, strynken (sic), strikyne, Scottish strikine, Middle English–1500s strikin, strykin, 1500s strykowen, stirkin, northern streikenne, Scottish strakin, 1600s strake; β. Middle English y-strike, Middle English strike, Middle English stryke; γ. Middle English Scottish strekine, Middle English–1500s streken, Middle English–1500s strekyn(e, (Middle English stregun), 1500s strek(k)in; δ. Middle English strikkyn, stryckyn, Middle English–1500s strikken, strikkin, 1500s ystricken (archaic), strycken, strickin, strickyn, 1500s– stricken; ε. 1500s strycke, stricke; ζ. Middle English Scottish strukkin, 1500s Scottish struiken, stru(c)kne, strukin, strukned, strokin, 1500s–1600s stroken, strooken, struken, strocken, (1500s strockin), 1600s stroaken, stroocken, 1500s–1800s strucken, (1500s struckin); 1500s–1600s stroke, strook(e, 1500s strock, 1600s stroake, strucke, 1600s– struck; η. Middle English–1500s striked, Middle English stryked.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: A Common West Germanic strong verb: Old English strícan , past tense strác , plural stricon , past participle stricen , corresponds to Old Frisian strîka , Middle Low German strîken , (Middle) Dutch strijken , Old High German strîhhan (Middle High German strîchen , modern German streichen strong verb; the weak verb streichen corresponds to stroke v.1) to pass lightly over a surface, to go, rove, wander, to stroke, rub, beat, < Germanic *strīk- ( < *straik- : *strik- ; for examples of these grades of the root see stroke n.1, streak n.1, strickle n.) < Indogermanic *streig- ( < *stroig- : *strig- ) found in Latin stringĕre to touch lightly, graze (radically distinct fromstringĕre to bind, tighten), strigilis strigil n., Old Church Slavonic strigą I shear (Russian strigu, infinitive strič′). A distinct, but probably ultimately connected root of similar meaning, Germanic *streuk- (: *strauk-: *struk-), < Indogermanic *streug-: *stroug-: *strug-, is found in Old Norse striúka strong verb (Swedish stryka, Danish stryge) to stroke, rub, Old High German strûhhôn, strûhhên (Middle High German strûchen) to strike against something, stumble. It has been suggested by Hirt that the parallel roots may have arisen from ablaut modification of an original *streyeweg.
I. To make one's way, proceed, and related uses.
1.
a. intransitive. To make one's way, go. In early use chiefly poetic. In later use, chiefly with adverb (forth, forward, over) or phrase indicating the direction. Obsolete exc. archaic.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
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goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
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shakeOE
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meteOE
wendOE
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haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
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fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
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hent1508
persevere?1521
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way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
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to get around1849
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bat1867
biff1923
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14804 & godess follc strac inn anan Vpp o þe driȝȝe sandess. To flen fra faraon þe king.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 732 Comen alle strikinde, þe strengest te swiðest of eauer euch strete.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4648 Hamun him to strac [c1300 Otho wende to].
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 183 A mous..Stroke forth sternly and stode biforn hem alle.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vi. 67 Twei stokkes þer stondeþ but stunt þou not þere,..stryk forþ bi hem boþe.
a1400 King & Hermit 83 Ȝyff i stryke into a pytte, Hors and man myȝht spylle.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. (Dubl.) 826* To poliponenses hase he passed..And so was strykyn or he styntyd in-to þe strange realm.
c1440 Sir Degrev. 1640 The stede stert over a fosse And strykys astray.
c1450 Urbanitatis (Calig. A.ii) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 14 To þe beste morselle þou may not stryke Thowȝ þou neuur so welle hit lyke.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 62 Neuertheles he..stryked forth thurgh alle the folke til he cam in to the place where the kynge hym self was.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke viii. 22 And he went vp into a boate, and his disciples, and he said to them, Let vs strike ouer the lake.
1599 George a Greene sig. F George. ..But what are these come trasing here along? Bettris. Three men come striking through the corne, My loue.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum x. 13. 118 [It was extraordinary] for them [sc. locusts]..to come in the spring,..whereas they vsually do strike ouer into other countries in haruest.
1641 J. Tatham Distracted State (1651) iv. i. 20 When you have done the Deed Strike towards the Back stairs.
a1701 H. Maundrell Acct. Journey from Aleppo in Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 4 Their way to cross is, by drawing up the Boat..and then with wretched Oars stricking over.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters ii. ii. 88 The Jews were not long of striking forward.
†b. of inanimate things. Also with up. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > move along [verb (intransitive)]
goeOE
lithec900
nimOE
fare971
shakeOE
strikea1000
gangOE
gengOE
seekc1000
glidea1275
wevec1300
hove1390
drevea1400
sway?a1400
wainc1540
discoursea1547
yede1563
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to get along1683
locomove1792
locomote1831
a1000 Boeth. Metr. xx. 140 [Se rodor] striceð ymbutan [i.e. revolves round the earth] ufane & neoðane, efenneah gehwæþer.
a1225 Juliana 59 Ha bigon to broken al as þat istelede irn strac hire in ouer al.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 1415 Strykis vp of þe stoure stanes of engynes.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 125 Al songe to loue þat gay Iuelle, Þe steuen moȝt stryke þurȝ þe vrþe to helle.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 24 The reik, yat strake vp jn the aire.
†c. Of a stream (of water, blood, tears): To run, flow. Also with down, adown. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > copiously > in (a) stream(s)
yetOE
strikea1225
streama1250
lavec1425
welterc1480
souse1591
spew1670
a1225 Leg. Kath. 2479 & strikeð a stream ut of þat stanene þruh þat ha in resteð.
a1225 St. Marher. 5 The let blod barst ut ant strac adun of hire bodi.
a1240 Ureisun in Old Eng. Hom. I. 189 Þe ilke fif wallen þet of þi blisfulle bodi sprungen and strike dun strondes of blod.
c1320 Castel of Love 729 A welle..Wiþ foure stremes þat strikeþ wel, And erneþ vppon þe grauel.
c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale (Corpus MS.) 222 His salte teeres stryked doun as reyn.
a1450 Octavian (Cambr.) 426 A welle feyre welle there they sye Come strykyng ouyr a stone.
†d. In immaterial sense: To go, pass (into a condition). Obsolete.to be stricken in years: see stricken adj. 1.
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the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] > pass into state, become
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worthOE
goOE
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to get into ——?1510
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to turn out1740
to gain into1756
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4038 Þe king more wondred þan any whiȝt elles, & strek in-to a studie stifliche þer-fore.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2981 Þere þat semli ladi..strek in-to a styf studie of hire sterne sweuen.
2.
a. To proceed in a new direction; to make an excursion; to turn in one's journey across, down, over, into, to, etc. Also with aside, in, off, out.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)]
charec1000
stintc1330
turnc1330
to turn awaya1382
windc1385
casta1475
rebatea1500
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to cast about1591
veer1769
to come around1797
twist?1801
vert1859
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > change course or turn off
turnc1330
to turn asidea1382
to turn in1535
to wave one's way1548
strike1576
to turn off1605
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 202 To avoid them, we strucke out of the way.
1669 N. Morton New-Englands Mem. (1910) 32 They recovered themselves, and having the flood with them, struck into the harbour.
1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 162 We left the Road, and struck into the Woods.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 3 Here we began to drop the rest of our Company, some striking East for the Streights.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Schweitzer Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 230 A French Privateer came up the English Road, and passed by our Fleet, narrowly viewing it, and struck in to Sea again.
1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 20 Let us strike down that Walk, and it brings us to the Palace.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 July (1948) I. 310 It began raining, and I struck into Mrs. Vanhomrigh's, and dined.
1760 S. Fielding Ophelia II. xlvii. 218 I should..go..into Oxfordshire, and then strike into the Western Road.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xvi. 359 At Chonchi, we struck off across the island, and followed intricate winding paths.
1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District 105 When the wall begins to descend, strike to the right along a green path.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton x. 144 Instead of going by Pershore, we had struck away northward.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile x. 279 Leaving the tombs, we now strike off towards the quarries.
figurative.1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. I.iiii I changed my copy, and stroke ouer into the Deprofundis which is placed amongst my other Poesies.1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 9 He stricks into another course and embargues all the hearbe into his hands.1749 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne II. lvi. 78 A strange disposition..to tread the same paths that have been traversed by others, or to strike out into the most devious extravagancies.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. viii. 86 The hapless course they struck into.1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters iii. 66 He even strikes off into a wild levity and startling humour at times.
b. of inanimate things, esp. of a road, or stream.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things
strike1584
veer1633
1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 94v Albeit there be another way also tendinge to the same place, strykinge ouer by the Neb of Delta.
1815 Kidd Geol. Ess. xxii. 218 The Gulph Stream..strikes off to the E. and S.E. towards Africa.
1883 ‘Holme Lee’ Loving & Serving II. vii. 118 A bridle road..struck into the fields.
1894 Speaker 2 June 610/1 Other roads striking off on every side into the forest.
figurative.1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 78/1 Their hostility strikes out into many ramifications, but it is not difficult to trace all these to the parent root.
c. Of a boundary, path, mountain-range, etc.: To take a (specified) direction, esp. with reference to the points of the compass.
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the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)]
goeOE
wendOE
runOE
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > go or lead (of a road or path) [verb (intransitive)]
golOE
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1456 Regist. de Aberbrothoc (Bannatyne Club) II. 89 The boundis..syne strikand north our betwen the proper landis of Arbroth and the commoun.
1585 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 415/1 Passand..linallie thairfra as the commoun gait strikis ewin eist to the calsay and brig of the Bow.
1833 J. Davidson Brit. & Rom. Remains Axminster 73 That branch of the Fosse-way which, striking off at Watergrove, advances in a south-westerly direction.
1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxvi. 493 A narrow quartzose ride..extends..in a line striking from 15° W. of N., to 15° E. of S.
1881 Proc. Royal Geog. Soc. New Ser. 3 31 To the west of the Town, a range of hills strikes southerly.
d. trans. to strike a line (also path): to take a direction or course of movement.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > follow (a path or course)
treadOE
followOE
embrace1639
solicit1694
pursue1788
to strike a line (also path1867
track1888
1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 666 They struck a line across the estuary of the Wash.
1890 A. Gissing Village Hampden II. x. 213 They struck their path across the fields.
1892 Field 26 Nov. 805/3 We decide to strike a bee line across country.
e. to strike back: to light or flash back (flash v.1 9c).
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1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. s.v. Bunsen Burner Occasionally the burner ‘strikes back’—i.e. the gas catches light and burns inside the tube.
II. To stroke, rub lightly, smooth, level.
3.
a. transitive. To go over lightly with an instrument, the hand, etc.; to stroke, smooth; to make level. Also with down, out, over. Also absol. Now dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > stroking > stroke [verb (transitive)]
strokec897
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to stroke over1822
the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > make flat or level [verb (transitive)] > with the hand or an instrument
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hand-wave1641
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 30 Mid wætere ne þwea ac strice hy mid claðe clæne.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11192 Þenne come chaumberleyns & squiers, Wiþ riche robes..To folde, to presse, & to pyke, & somme to hange, & som to strike.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 244 Þat gode hors blessede he þo & louely strek ys mane.
c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 280 Youre hed ne bak ye claw.., ne youre heere ye stryke.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 37 Where his footspore stood, there stryked he with his tayl and made it smothe with his mouth that noman shold espye it.
14.. in Archaeologia 4 312 The warderoper to delyver the second sheete unto two yomen, they to crosse it over theyr arme, and to stryke the bedde as the ussher shall more playnly shewe unto theym.
in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 122 And the esquires to gather the sheete round together in their hand on eyther side the bedd, and goe to the bedd's head and strike downe the same twice or thrice as they come downe.
1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. lxv. O iij Take hede that ye..foote stande vp ryght, and you with your flat hande ouer the fracture stryke so that ye about nor vnder fele none vneuen place.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/2 I stryke, I make smothe, japlanis. Stryke over this paper.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/2 I stryke ones heed, as we do a chyldes whan he dothe well.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxviv He hauyng a great gray beard, striked out his beard and sayd to the hangman [etc.].
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid (1562) viii. sig. Cc.jv A she wolfe..them swetely lyckt reforming soft their limmes, & soft wt tong them smothly stryckt.
1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 308 Sum strykis down a threid bair cheik For luve.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15v More stroken, more made on, when ought they do aile, more gentle ye make them for yoke or to paile.
1579 R. Rice Inuect. Vices I ij b He shall strike your heades, and make very muche of you.
†b. To shave. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > shave
shearc897
shave?c1225
strikec1275
razec1460
mow1647
scrapea1774
razora1783
tonsure1793
stubble1836
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10131 Baldulf lette striken [c1300 Otho strike] to þan bare lichen. his bærd and his chinne.
c. To rub gently, stroke (a diseased part), by way of charm, or with the application of a salve. Obsolete exc. dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). Also, †to strike one's hand over (a part).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > physiotherapy > practise physiotherapy [verb (transitive)] > rub or stroke with hands
strokec897
strike1400
friction1856
1400 Brut 229 And a drope of dry bloode and smal sande cleued on his honde, and þerwiþ he striked his eyne.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings v. 11 He will..strike [1885 (Revised) wave] his hand ouer the place, and recouer the leper. View more context for this quotation
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) The ordinary specific for a stye in the eye is ‘to strike it three times with a wedding-ring’.
1892 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 236 People came to her to have their swellings struck.
†d. To scrape or skim off. Also, ? to skim (a liquid). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > removal of scum > remove scum from [verb (transitive)] > remove as scum
scumc1400
strikec1430
skim1651
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. i. 27 Take þan a clene canvas, & caste þe mylke vppe-on, & with a platere stryke it of þe cloþe.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. vi. 169/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I She returneth the middle woort vnto the furnace, where it is striken ouer.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. vi. 170/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I She..seetheth it againe with a pound and an halfe of new hops,..& when it hath sodden..she striketh it also.
†4. To smear (soap, blood, etc.) on a surface; also to spread (a surface) with (something); to coat (a surface) over with oil, a wash, etc. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance
smear971
dechea1000
cleamc1000
besmearc1050
clamc1380
glue1382
pargeta1398
overslame?1440
plaster?1440
beslab1481
strike1525
bestrike1527
streak1540
bedaub1558
spread1574
daub1598
paste1609
beplaster1611
circumlite1657
oblite1657
fata1661
gaum?1825
treacle1839
butter1882
slap1902
slather1941
nap1961
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance > smear (a substance)
cleamc1000
smeara1400
spread?a1425
strike1525
splet1530
dab1592
stroke1594
sponge1607
daub1647
wipe1738
plaster1799
teerc1850
slather1866
cake1944
14.. in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 108 To make murrour bryȝt. Stryke wel theron blak sope.
1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. lxi. O j Take powder as hereafter foloweth medled with ye whyte of an egge, and stryke it vpon a clothe lyke a plaster.
1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. lxv. O ij b The clothe must be wel stryken on the one syde with the salue.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/1 I hade as lefe stryke my breed with butter as with hony.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xii. 7 And they shal take of his bloude, and stryke it on both the syde postes of the dore. [So 1611; Heb., LXX, and Vulgate have simply ‘put’; Luther bestreichen, which Coverdale prob. followed.]
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. x. f. 84v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Whyte lime..wherewith we stricke ouer our clay workes & stone walles, in C[i]tties.
1596 Thomas's Dict. (1606) at Moretum A kinde of pudding; also any thing that may be striked, as butter.
1640 T. Brugis Marrow of Physicke ii. 141 Take it [your Marmalade] from the fire, and fill your Boxes, and with a feather strike it over with Rosewater.
1687 J. Smith Art of Painting in Oyl (ed. 2) xix. 89 With a Pencil dipt in clear Wallnut-Oyl..let the printed Paper be struck clean over on both sides.
1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory v. 152 Take smooth plain'd Pear-Tree Wood, strike it over with Aqua Fortis.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §328 A couple of men with brushes, struck over the surface..with raw Linseed oil.
5.
a. To make (grain, etc.) level with the rim of the measure by passing a strickle over it. Also with object the measure. Also to strike off.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > make flat or level [verb (transitive)] > corn, etc., with an instrument
strick14..
strike14..
streakc1440
straik1579
strickle1885
stroke1887
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > measurement of capacity [verb (transitive)] > level off a measure with a stick
strike14..
raze1495
14.. Tretyce in Walter of Henley's Husb. (1890) 50 Se þt yor corne be mesured withe..a trewe bushell & þat euery bushell be strekyn.
1474 Stat. Winch. in Coventry Leet Bk. 396 viij Buysshelles makith a Quarter, striken with a Rasid stryke, and neyther hepe nor Cantell.
1543 tr. Act 25 Edw. III Stat. 4 c. 10, 32 And euery measure of corne shalbe stryked without hepe.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 109 When wee sende our Corne to mill, wee allwayes strike all cleane of, yett the use is in most places to hand wave it.., but the Millers will say that they had as leave have corne stricken as soe hand waved.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 68 Strike off the heaped Powder.
1697 View Penal Laws 338 If Head Officers of Cities..wilfully suffer any to sell Corn..by other Measure, or Strucken in other manner.
1878 Act 41 & 42 Vict. c. 49 §17 In using an imperial measure of capacity, the same shall not be heaped but either shall be stricken with a round stick,..or [etc.].
1892 Field 2 Apr. 469/3 The somewhat delicate operation of gently filling the bushel measure, striking it, and then weighing the oats.
b. To level (sand) in moulding. Also with up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > make flat or level [verb (transitive)] > level sand
strike1779
1779 Ann. Reg., Projects 103/1 The sand should be struck smooth with an hollow rule.
1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making 40 The moulder..stikes over a bed of hard rammed sand representing the top of the boss.
1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making 67 Being plastic when in the wet state it [foundry loam] can be ‘struck up’, or made to assume any shape that may be required.
†6. To mould (wax, a taper, candle, etc.). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > types of shaping process
worka1325
strike1485
sink1526
print1530
cut1600
to work out1600
strain1674
scribe1679
stamp1798
slab1868
squirt1881
tablet1891
extrude1913
fabricate1926
1485 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. For strykyng of the pascall and the font taper ijs. iij d. For strykyng of x li of olde torche waxe x d.
1492–3 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 188 Payd to Roger Mydylton for strekyng of xiijxxll and xvj of waxe.
1526 Churchwardens' Accts. Dunmow (MS) f. 4v Item, for strykynge of the lyght..att the hy alter.
1527 Churchwardens' Accts. Dunmow (MS) f. 6v Item, for strekynge of the Rode lyght, xiiid.
1546 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1874) 9 225 Payd to Holnesse for strekyng of the crosse lygth & the paschall & for strekyng of ij li. of small candles, iij s. iiij d.
1547 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1874) 9 226 Item payd for strycking of the olde & new waxe at Ester, xv d.
1547 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1874) 9 226 Item payd for strykynge of ij li. of small candyll that wase of the passkoll, ij d.
1555 ( in Archaeologia Cantiana (1874) 9 231 Item ffor strikinge of the same waxe, iiij d.
7. To mould (a brick or tile).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > brick and tile making > make bricks and tiles [verb (transitive)] > specific processes
strike1683
shinlog1703
deliver1809
hack1813
underburn1841
malm1850
off-bear1856
skintle1876
kelly1884
1683 J. Houghton Coll. Lett. Improvem. Husb. II. vi. 188 With the Earth he forms a Brick, strikes it, and lays it upon the Pallat.
1736 Neve's City & Country Purchaser's & Builder's Dict. (ed. 3) at Brick G 2 b/2 The mould [of a stock-brick] is put on a Stock, after the Manner of moulding, or strikeing of Tiles.
1736 Neve's City & Country Purchaser's & Builder's Dict. (ed. 3) at Brick G 2 b/2 And so they continue to strike and place them on the Stage.
8.
a. Bricklaying. To level up (a joint) with mortar; to spread (mortar) along a joint. (Cf. 4.)
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps
stop1388
beamfill1469
stuff1601
caulk1616
run1657
strike1668
fog1678
chinse1770
sneck1792
darn1801
pug1820
chink1822
grout1838
fillet1843
gallet1851
slush1875
putty1879
spackle1950
1668 W. Leybourn Platform for Purchasers ii. 109 And here note, That the Barge Courses in any Building must be struck with Lime and hair Mortar.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 169 Pointing, (which is striking Mortar under the lower ends).
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1596 Strike the joints inside of the schoolrooms flush and fair for lime-whiting.
b. To cut off the superfluous mortar from the edges of (tiling).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > cover with tiles > process involved in
strike1700
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 12 A Broome, to sweep the Tyling after 'tis strooke.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 12 A piece of Lath..with which they strike, or cut off the Morter at the britches of the Tiles.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 518 The tiler's tools are..the striker, a piece of lath..for separating and taking away the superfluous mortar..[and] the broom, to sweep the tiling after it is struck.
9. Tanning. To smooth and expand (skins). Also to strike out.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > stretch or smooth hides or leather
beam1605
stake1686
frizz1697
strike1764
seta1884
snuff1897
1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 54 Mr. Brookfield, tanner, reported, the specimens exhibited were well tanned, and thoroughly struck.
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 193 The goat-skins, after being thoroughly washed, are..‘struck’, that is scraped and rubbed out as smooth as possible.
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 193 The drying in the loft has had the effect of shrivelling the skins..to obviate which, the skins are wetted, and ‘struck out’, or smoothed again.
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) xxiii. 364 The skins..are next ‘struck out’ on mahogany tables... A steel ‘slicker’ is used for this operation.
10. Carpentry. To fashion (moulding) with a plane: = stick v.1 11c [So Dutch strijken.]
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > trim, smooth, or plane
try1593
shoot?1677
traverse1678
trim1679
stick1703
dub1711
adze1744
to rough off1748
strike1842
jack-plane1861
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1038 Striking, another application of the word occurs in the practice of joinery, to denote the act of running a moulding with a plane.
1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 456 A beaded moulding to be struck on each of the angles of the under sides of rafters.
III. To mark with lines, draw a line.Cf. Old English bestrícan ‘to make a stroke round’ (B.-T. Suppl.).
†11.
a. To mark (a surface) with a line or lines. Also to strike out, through. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > with lines
score1495
line1530
strike1539
lineate1558
interline1572
rule1599
quote1601
1539 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 218 Item, for calk to strik the treis witht.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. xxiii. 171 An exquisite Card whereby to sail..struck through with lines on all parts.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 122 They new washe and plaister their houses wth in and without wch they strike out in squares like free stone.
†b. figurative. To mark, stigmatize. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > make infamous [verb (transitive)] > brand with infamy
notec1425
notec1450
strike1597
embrand1604
stigmatize1619
brand1625
affix1641
render1647
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xiii. 177 Sylla: whose name shall be striked with the blackest cole of infamy in all the ages of the worlde.
12.
a. To draw (a straight line) esp. by mechanical means; to draw (a circle, an arc) with compasses. In wider sense, †to make (a stroke, written mark).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing lines > draw lines [verb (transitive)] > draw ruled line
rulea1398
strike1611
society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [verb (transitive)] > form with stroke
strike1770
1611 A. Hopton Speculum Topographicum i. xxvii. 71 Placing the one foote of your compasse in g,..with the other strike the portion of the circle h i k l.
1614 W. Bedwell De Numeris Geometricis 33 First with the iage, I strike two parallel lines.
1662 W. Faithorne Art of Graveing & Etching xiv. 15 Accustome your self to strike your strokes firm and bold.
1687 P. Ayres Lyric Poems (1906) 272 Since my dull pen trembles to strike a line.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 413/2 Dashes..which serve for the cutting off or shortning of words,..which all of them are strucken downwards to the foot of the Letter.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxxi. 456 The nearer the Line, struck from the Perpendicular, approaches to a right Angle.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 229 None can strike two letters of the same signification, so as..to have the same likeness.
1856 R. Ferguson Northmen Cumbld. & Westmld. 199 Strike, to make a straight line by means of a string.
1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 65 Take your compasses, put on a pencil point, and with it strike the semicircle as above directed.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §375 By aid of the chalk line and reel, a perfectly straight line could be struck from E to F.
1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making 7 In striking special pairs of wheels, of course it is not necessary to use the same describing circle throughout.
†b. ? To interline in a list. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [verb (transitive)] > insert additional words between lines > insert or interline in list
strike1639
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxi. 265 The Reader, as he lighteth on more, at his leisure may strike them into this catalogue [of Princes].
13.
a. To cancel or expunge with or as with the stroke of a pen. Const. from, off, out (of), rarely †away; also (U.S.) without const., esp. in legal contexts, and colloquial, in the imperative, annulling or reversing what the speaker has just said. Also to strike (a name, a person) off or (now rarely) out of a list. Cf. to strike off, to strike out, to strike through at Phrasal verbs.The past participle form stricken is common in the legal examples of this sense.to be struck off the rolls: see roll n.1 2b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking
strikec1386
to rub offa1425
cancelc1440
streakc1440
cross1483
outstrike1487
line1530
to strike out1530
dash1549
to strike off1597
cancellate1664
damask1673
score1687
to run through1817
overscore1834
blue-pencil1883
stroke1885
caviar1890
to stencil out1891
to strike through1898
ex1935
x1942
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > with violence > strike off
off-smitec1275
strikec1320
ofgreetc1330
swapa1375
strikec1386
c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 66 Thanne wolde he seye, freend, I shal for thy sake Do striken hire out of oure lettres blake.
1549 J. Olde tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Eph. 6 Christ..stroke away al the difference of circumcised, and not circumcised.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 57 That thou didst loue her, strikes some scores away From the great compt.
1746 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 15 Apr. Vernon is struck off the list of admirals.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. ix. 166 O! could I strike from my memory all former scenes.
1832 G. S. Yerger Rep. Supreme Court Tennessee 1 229 That an attorney may be stricken from the roll for good cause, none can doubt.
1839 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots Jan. He has struck Thomas out of his will.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 36 His name was struck out of the list of privy councillors.
1873 P. V. Smith Hist. Eng. Inst. iii. viii. 214 A person tried for his life might..challenge and strike off the panel as many as thirty-five.
1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed ii The first person who flouts her shall be struck off my visiting list.
1891 Field 7 Nov. 701/3 [List of] Horses struck out of their engagements.
1906 Federal Reporter (1907) 147 451 All of the testimony given by the witness..is withdrawn and stricken out of this case.
1917 Southwestern Reporter 189 661/1 No further steps..were taken in the case until the February term, 1904, of the Magoffin circuit court, when it was stricken from the docket.
1938 Congress. Rec. 24 May 7405/2 That the Committee do..report the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the enacting clause be stricken out.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 19 July 4/2 The Convention..voted 132 to 49, to strike that section from the Constitution.
1957 Reports Supreme Court Kansas (1958) 181 623 In our opinion the reply was erroneously stricken.1965 Pacific Reporter CCCCIV. 230/2 Where..a second clause appears which expresses a different intent and declares a life estate plus a remainder which is void under the rule, the qualifying clause will be stricken.1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 31 Aug. 19/2 Motion to strike the statement of readiness is granted.1978 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. b3/4 Over strong objections from the prosecutor, Sybil R. Moses, Judge William J. Arnold ordered the question stricken.1963 R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) xi. 754 In television we might note mark it and strike it, directions to stage hands to chalk out the position for scenery and then rub out the mark for the next set.1976 R. M. Stern Will i. ii. 17 Do you..believe that the crash was not an accident? Strike that. We will look into it with an open mind.1977 H. Greene FSO-1 ii. 16 I don't give a damn what the congressman says. Strike that: I do give a damn.
b. to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register: to remove (that person's name) from the register of qualified practitioners and thereby forbid him or her to practise. Usually passive.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge
to put awaya1387
discharge1428
dismiss1477
to put out of wages1542
discard1589
to turn away1602
to put off1608
disemploy1619
to pay off1648
to pay off1651
to turn out1667
to turn off1676
quietus1688
strip1756
trundle1794
unshop1839
shopc1840
to lay off1841
sack1841
drop1845
to give (a person) the shoot1846
bag1848
swap1862
fire1879
to knock off1881
bounce1884
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888
bump1899
spear1911
to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911
terminate1920
tramp1941
shitcan1961
pink slip1966
dehire1970
resize1975
to give a person his jotters1990
1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma Pref. p. xciii Execute the doctor, if necessary, as a doctor, by striking him off the register.
1936 A. Christie Cards on Table xvi. 157 I heard him say he'd get Dr. Roberts struck off the—Medical Register, would it be?
1951 ‘E. Crispin’ Long Divorce xvi. 199 We can and shall get him struck off the register.
14. To form (a jury) by cancelling a certain number of names from the list of persons nominated to serve; similarly, to form (a committee), to make (a new register of voters).
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [verb (transitive)] > empanel a jury
empanel1426
return1426
panel1451
array1635
stick1688
strike1715
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > invest with right to vote [verb (transitive)] > make a new register of voters
strike1892
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > form (types of body) [verb (transitive)] > form (committee)
strike1896
1715 London Gaz. No. 5389/2 The Clerk of the Crown was required to strike a Jury for his Tryal.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. vi. 83 That twelve freeholders of that hundred, qualified to serve on juries, and struck by the sheriff, shall be summoned to appear at such court by rotation.
1821 Examiner 321/1 Let us suppose the Jury to be struck with perfect fairness and impartiality.
1823 Examiner 323/1 Out of the 48 persons first nominated, each party, after due inquiry, strike twelve—leaving 24, of whom the first 12 called (who attend) form the actual jury.]
1877 Cox Cases Crim. Law (1878) XIII. 646 The case was tried by a special jury of the city of Dublin, struck under the old system.
1892 Graphic 9 Apr. 455/2 If the General Election fell at any date after the 31st of July, when the new Register is struck.
1896 Daily News 17 Dec. 4/7 The Committee was struck late in the summer, and did not meet till the 15th of August.
15. To make or cut (a tally). See tally n.1 1b.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > make or cut a tally
tail1377
tallyc1440
strike1626
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > record > by notches
scorec1386
tallyc1440
nick?1523
notch1573
strike1626
1626 King Charles I in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 264 Acquittances to be given you, which shall be your warrant for striking tallies and for repayment hereafter.
a1637 B. Jonson Loves Wel-come sig. Pp2v in Wks. (1640) III We ha' cleft the bough, And struck a tallie of our loves, too, now.
1644 in Docqets Lett. Patent at Oxf. (1837) 392 To deliuer back the Tallies strucken for the same as aforesaid vncancelled.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xxii. 49 I reconcile my self with my Creator, and strike a tally in the Exchequer of Heaven for my quietus est, ere I close my eyes.
1695–6 Act 7 & 8 Will. III c. 30 §38 Several Tallies..have been also levied or stricken att the Receipt of the Exchequer upon His Majesties said Revenue ariseing in the General Letter-Office.
16.
a. Agriculture. To mark off (land, a ridge) by ploughing once up and down the field (also with down, up); to make (furrows) in this manner (also with out); also absol.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] > mark off by ploughing
strike1573
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > mark off for or by ploughing
feerc1400
strike1707
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 54 Thry fallow once ended, go strike by & by.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 45 You must not let it lie long before you strick, size, or plow it up into small Ridges.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 123 To striking said fields, seventeen acres.
1834 D. Low Elements Pract. Agric. iv. 146 The first operation in the forming of ridges is striking the furrows.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 465 The first process in ridging up land from the flat surface is called feering or striking the ridges.
1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 5 These [ridges]..are..struck down with two furrows.
1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 6 ii. 287 Cost of cultivation [of hops]..Striking up and furrowing, 0 5 0.
1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 i. 41 This land..is again ploughed across..in the manner we term striking, or back-bouting. This is done by turning one furrow to the land, and in returning to turn over this furrow, and the furrow or earth on which it was laid.
b. To make (a row of holes) with a dibble.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)] > make hole with dibble
dibble1582
hole1756
dab1787
strike1797
1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk (ed. 2) 48 A man, walking backwards on the flag,..with a dibber of iron..in each hand, strikes two rows of holes..on each flag.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 475 A one-horse roll then follows to level the flag, or furrow, for the dibblers, who strike only one row upon each.
IV. To lower (sails, masts), and derived senses. [Sense 17 is in (Middle) Low German and (Middle) Dutch and in modern German; it therefore cannot be a derivative from branch V, which is specially English. The actual development is uncertain; possibly the sense may be pre-Germanic: compare Latin stringĕre to strip off (leaves, etc.).]
17.
a. Nautical. To lower or take down (a sail, mast, yard, etc.); esp. to lower (the topsail) as a salute and (more rarely) as a sign of surrender in an engagement. Phrase, to strike sail. to strike a hull (see 1856 at ahull adv.). Also to strike down.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > strike or take in (sails)
strikea1300
main1517
hand1625
douse1626
to shake off1627
muzzle1883
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > lower yard, mast, or sail
strikea1300
cale1652
a1300 K. Horn (Cambr.) 1013 Hi strike seil & maste & Ankere gunne caste.
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iv. 80 For ne had þei striked a strake and sterid hem þe better, And abated a bonet or þe blast come.
c1440 Bone Flor. 1864 Then beganne the storme to ryse,..They stroke the sayle.
1524 Inform. Pilgr. Holy Land (Roxb.) c iv b So they saylled forth..& neuer stryked saylle tyll they came to port Iaffe.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. M5 Now strike your sailes yee iolly Mariners, For we be come vnto a quiet rode.
c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 13 By that they had some 3 peeces bestowed on them they stroke saile, yealdinge themselves unto the mercie of our Generall.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Bvjv They vaile their bonnet low, And strike their top-saile in submissiue dutie.
1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxvii. 17 They vsed helps,..and fearing lest they should fall into the quicke-sands, strake saile, and so were driuen. View more context for this quotation
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 28 Strike your top masts to the cap.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 56 He must..strike a Hull that you may not descry him by his sailes.
1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) ii. 8 The Marriners stroke Saile and submitted.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 104 So when we take downe the top-masts, they say, Strike them downe.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 296 Both Ships struck their Yards and Top masts.
1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 92 A body of sailors..proceeded..to Sunderland.., and at the cross there read a paper, setting forth their grievances... After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour, and struck (lowered down) their yards, in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 60 Now some to strike top-gallant yards attend.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xii. 96 Fain to strike the galley's yard, And take them to the oar.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxii. 220 The royal yards were then struck.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xxi. 181 His maintopmast was struck, that is, sent down on deck.
1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 179 The custom of ‘striking’ or lowering a sail [as a salute] has almost died out.
in figurative phrases.1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxxiiiiv Nowe wolde I of my boke haue made an ende And with my shyp drawen to some hauen or porte Stryken my sayle.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 5 Now Margaret Must strike her sayle, and learne a while to serue, Where Kings command. View more context for this quotationa1699 W. Temple Ess. Pop. Discontents in Wks. (1731) I. 270 To this, all differing Opinions, Passions and Interests should strike Sail.1733 A. Pope Impertinent 14 He boarding her, she striking sail to him.
b. To haul down (a flag), esp. as a salute or as a sign of surrender. Chiefly in the phrases to strike (the) flag, to strike one's colours. Also to strike one's flag (said of an admiral): see flag n.4 2.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lower or let down > in submission or respect > specifically a flag
strikea1665
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 42 Because I did not strike flag nor do other ceremonies of dutie.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 4 Mar. (1974) VIII. 96 He hears that the Dutch..will have a promise of not being obliged to strike the flag to us before they will treat with us.
1676 London Gaz. No. 1077/4 Three Ostend Privateers..fired several Guns at him,..to make him strike his Colours.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 77 To lower or strike the Flag, is to pull it down upon the Cap, and in Fight is a token of yielding; but otherwise of great respect.
1747 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) i. 31 If an admiral be killed, the instructions forbid his flag to be struck, for fear of discouraging the fleet.
1799 Hull Advertiser 6 July 1/4 Admiral Lord Bridport struck his flag last evening.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) To strike the colours. This is properly a naval term, but it may be applied to military matters on some occasions.
1867 J. T. Headley Farragut & Naval Commanders 492 He..on the 12th of next month struck his flag as admiral of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
figurative.1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Good for Nothing I. xiii. 162 I thought he seemed very much smitten with the young lady. You know he is not very susceptible, so when he does strike his flag, it is all the greater compliment.1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 141 The mouse..would have to fight and not strike his colours to a scorpion as he would to a cat.
c. absol. To lower sail, haul down one's flag; esp. to lower the topsails or haul down the flag or colours as a sign of surrender or as a salute.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > lower sail, flag, or weapon
strike1390
vail1509
to lower or strike one's flag1644
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (intransitive)] > strike sails or colours
strike1390
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 338 Thei hadden wynd at wille tho, With topseilcole and forth they go, And striken nevere, til thei come To Tyr.
1449 R. Wenyngton in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 69 I cam a-bord the Admirall and bade them stryke in the Kyngys name of Englond.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 185 The day befoir the schip strak in the raid of Leyth.
1617 in J. S. Corbett Fighting Instr. (1905) 39 If you give chase and being near a ship you shall shoot to make her strike.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Sail To Strike sail... All foreign vessels strike to an English man of war in the British seas.
1814 Niles' Weekly Reg. 19 Nov. 174/2 The Avon had not struck, but was reported to have had her colors nailed to the mast.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. iv. 71 The second lieutenant was deputed to pull alongside of the frigate to ascertain if she had struck.
1886 G. A. Henty Yarns on Beach 84 Captain Ball..reported that the fort with which he was engaged had struck.
figurative.1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 267 We see the wind sit sore vpon our sailes, And yet we strike not, but securely perish. View more context for this quotation1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. F What'l hee saile by, and not once strike, or vaile to a Man of warre? ha?1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas II. v. i. 134 I thought myself the first man in the world, but truly I strike to you.1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 8 He would have clearly liked to stick out; but there was something about the lot of us that meant mischief, and at last he struck.
d. to strike over: to turn over on its side. Cf. to keel over at keel v.2 3a.
ΚΠ
1930 Times 31 Mar. 7/5 The old vessel has been standing at the side of the slipway in Cowes, up which she was hauled and ‘struck over’ in the autumn of 1928. She was protected with an over-all covering.
18. transitive.
a. Nautical. To lower (a thing) into the hold by means of a rope and tackle. Chiefly to strike down (also absol.). Also, to strike out, to hoist out from the hold and lower to the dock.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > lower into hold
strike1644
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 104 When we lower any thing into the howld with the tackles or any other roape, we call it Striking-down into Howld.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. v. 56 Each Captain had orders..to strike down some of their great guns into the hold.
1850 H. Melville White-jacket xxxvii. 183 To the..consternation of the sailors, an order now came from the quarter-deck to ‘strike the strangers down into the main-hold!’
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 71 The fore hatchway, for striking down or hoisting up stores in the fore part of the ship.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Strike down! the order to lower casks, &c., into the hold.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xxi. 181 He had struck the long gun forward down below.
†b. gen. To lower, let down with a rope.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lower or let down > with a rope
strike1545
tow1596
1545–6 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. cxxxv Item, for strykyng the greatte stee, ij.d.
1595 R. Hasleton Strange & Wonderfull Things sig. Biiijv And by it [sc. the rope] did I strike my self over the wall into the towne ditche.
†c. To let down the rope or chain of (a crane). Also to strike down (see quot. 1778). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lower or let down > specifically the rope or chain of a crane
strike1530
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lower or let down > by mechanical means
to turn down1551
parbuckle1768
to strike down1778
to hoist down1794
to jack down1893
to wind down1961
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/2 I stryke, I let downe the crane, je lache... Stryke lowe.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis Expl. Terms 329/1 Strîk, to strîk or streeck down, or strike down; is to let a man down in a Shaft by the windlass.
19. Building.
a. To remove (scaffolding); in trench-work, to remove (the timbers with which the sides have been secured).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)] > scaffold > remove (scaffolding)
strike1694
1694 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 192 The Choire now finished, as to the stone work & that part both without & within the scaffolds struck.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 282 If we consider Religion only as the scaffolding of reason,..any one..may see that it is much too early to strike the scaffolding yet.
1821 Corr. W. Fowler (1907) 406 The angels..will want painting..that may be done at any time with a ladder if you must strike the scaffold before they are ready.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xiv. 347 On striking the scaffolding, part of the south transept..came down.
b. To remove (the centre or centering of an arch).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)] > construct arches or vaults > remove centre of
strike1739
1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 43 The..Arches..would have been in..Danger of falling the Moment the Centers that supported them..should be struck.
1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 45 They attempted to strike down the Centers, on which they had turned the Arches.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 127/1 Upon striking the centering the arches followed from 1 inch and 3/ 4 to 2 inches and 3/ 4.
1883 Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railway 4 The string courses..are not to be put on until the centres are struck.
20. Shipbuilding. To cause (a vessel) to slide down, off (the slipway); to release (a boat from the cradle).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > launching a vessel > launch or set afloat [verb (transitive)] > cause vessel to slide down slipway
strikea1647
a1647 P. Pett Life in Archaeologia (1796) 12 259 Being ready to have the ship strucken down upon her ways, I caused twelve of the choice master carpenters..to be sent for from Chatham.
1892 Field 26 Nov. 825/2 She is hauled up on their large patent slipway and struck off the cradle.
21.
a. To discharge (a load); to empty (a vessel) of its load.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > unload
uncharge13..
unladea1398
unload?1523
strike1797
offload1850
download1962
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 33 When you let any thing downe into the Howle, lowering it by degrees, they say, Amaine; and being downe, Strike.
1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 12 The modes I have invented of striking, or landing and emptying them [sc. corves].
1901 Law Jrnl. Rep. 70 680/2 The operation known as striking the casks—that is, discharging the vans with the load.
absolute.1702 Post Man 12–14 Mar. 2/2 (advt.) Lost on the Key, or by error delivered a Pipe of..Wine..which is wanted out of a parcel of Wines taken up by Josiah Bishop,..who ordered the Carmen to strike in Cullumstreet near Ipswich Arms.
b. Sugar Manufacturing. To empty (the liquor, the tache).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [verb (transitive)] > empty tache
strike1839
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [verb (intransitive)] > empty tache
strike1882
1793 B. Edwards Hist. Brit. Colonies W. Indies II. v. ii. 235 This operation is usually called striking; i.e. lading the liquor, now exceedingly thick, into the cooler.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1203 The thermometer.. can by no means be regarded as a sure guide, in determining the proper instant for striking the teache.
1882 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts V. 1891 If, after a moment's cooling, the sling can be formed into a ball which does not stick to the fingers,..the correct period has arrived for striking.
22. To let down (a tent) for removal; to remove the tents of (a camp or encampment).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > pitch (tent or camp) [verb (transitive)] > let down (tent) for removal
strike1707
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > pitch (tent or camp) [verb (transitive)] > break up or clear of tents
untelda1400
levy1542
discamp1566
untent1609
strike1707
1707 London Gaz. No. 4337/2 The Enemy..struck their Tents, and form'd in Line of Battle.
1825 W. Scott Talisman ix, in Tales Crusaders IV. 177 The pavilion which they had left, was..struck with singular dispatch.
1829 C. Rose Four Years S. Afr. 167 At the first dawn of day, all was in motion;..some striking the tent, yoking the oxen, and saddling the horses.
1854 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 6) 148 To strike the Encampment..at the word Strike Tents, and Pickets, the pickets are struck at once; the tents and marquees prepared for striking... At the word Down, the whole are lowered together.
1891 Field 26 Dec. 973/2 Next morning we struck camp and turned homewards.
23.
a. To unfix, put out of use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > unfix
unloose?a1425
unfix1600
unmounta1680
strike1793
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > refrain from using [verb (transitive)] > withdraw from use
repeal1573
strike1793
retire1881
decommission1922
1793 Ann. Reg., Chron. 53 Bath. This day the whole body of chairmen..struck their poles, and proceeded in a mutinous manner to Guildhall, respecting the granting of their licenses.
1821-6 [see sense 24b].
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxvi. 240 The steps [of the caravan] being struck by George and stowed under the carriage, away they went.
1851 W. Bolland Cricket Notes iv. 67 Arrange, before your game commences, the hour for dinner, and striking wickets.
b. Theatre. To remove (a scene); to remove the scenery, etc. of (a play); to turn down (a light).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (transitive)] > remove scenery
strike1889
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (transitive)] > light > turn down light
strike1889
1889 Daily Tribune (N.Y.) 14 July in Cent. Dict. s.v. set1 9 An elaborate scene is ‘set’ when it is arranged upon the stage, and ‘struck’ when it is removed.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Dec. 1/3 It took twelve hours of work by a very large staff to ‘strike’ ‘Ivanhoe’ and mount ‘La Basoche’.
1893 Black & White Christm. No. 7/1 Stage suddenly dark. Gas ballens and limes slowly up. Strike all gas lengths.
c. Hawking. (See quot. 1891) Cf. unstrike v.
ΚΠ
1891 J. E. Harting Bibliotheca Accipitraria 230 Strike the hood, to half open it, so as to be in readiness to hood off the moment the hawk is to be flown.
24.
a. intransitive. Of an employee: To refuse to continue work; esp. of a body of employees, to cease working by agreement among themselves or by order of their society or union.For the origin of this sense cf. quot. 17691 at sense 17a and quot. 1793 at sense 23a.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > strike
strike1769
to turn out1795
to strike work, tools1803
stick1823
to come out1841
to go out1850
to down tools1855
to hit the bricks1931
1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 107/1 This day the hatters struck, and refused to work till their wages are raised.
1793 G. Dyer Complaints Poor People Eng. 74 The poor..seldom strike, as it is called, without good reason... The colliers had struck for more wages.
1801 Times 3 Aug. A number of Journeymen Biscuit-bakers..struck from their work for an increase of wages.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 32/2 They ‘struck’, as it is termed, because their employer infringed, as they considered, upon their privileges.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. viii. 191 The fifth form would fag us, and I and some more struck.
1892 Sat. Rev. 2 Jan. 10/1 The London omnibus men struck in a body.
b. More explicitly to strike work, †tools (cf. sense 23). Also with particular kind of work as object.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > strike
strike1769
to turn out1795
to strike work, tools1803
stick1823
to come out1841
to go out1850
to down tools1855
to hit the bricks1931
1803 W. Scott Let. Mar. (1932) I. 181 I never heard of authors striking work as the mechanicks call it untill their Masters the Booksellers should increase their pay.
1820 J. W. Croker in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) I. vi. 176 The regiment intended to strike work, as the tradesmen would say.
1821–6 T. Chalmers Wks. (c1840) XVI. 69 If..the artisans of any establishment should strike their tools.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. i. 369 Thus do Cabinet-ministers themselves, in extreme cases, strike work.
1878 A. Trollope Is he Popenjoy? III. xix. 251 She had on one occasion threatened to strike lecturing.
1891 Law Times' Rep. 65 580/1 The secretaries called off their respective union men, who in obedience to the call struck work.
in extended use.1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life (ed. 4) x. 230 The machinery of the window sash abruptly striking work.1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 56 The liver can ‘strike work’ and refuse to secrete bile.
c. transitive. Of a workmen's society or union: To order a strike of workmen against (a firm); to order (a body of workmen) to strike. Also in wider but analogous contexts. Now only North American.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > work at specific times or periods [verb (transitive)] > stop (work)
to lay off1841
strike1891
society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (transitive)] > summon (workers) to strike > order strike against (firm)
strike1891
society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (transitive)] > summon (workers) to strike
to call out1843
strike1950
1891 Daily News 31 Dec. 6/3 Pending the outcome, no fresh firms will be struck.
1892 Bury Guardian 23 Apr. 5/5 The secretary of the Weavers' Association struck the mill on an entirely new question.
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 117 She'd worry Mac about striking his boss for more pay.
1941 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Sept. 12/2 Now the affected union, the Seafarers' International Union of the AFL, serves formal notice that it will strike every ship on which it has contracts.
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Jan. 4–0/1 They [sc. students] held a mass meeting, staged a snake dance, struck their classes, and otherwise asserted themselves, in protest over the resignation of..a football coach at the university.
1950 H. Patterson & E. Conrad Scottsboro Boy ii. vii. 137 Right here we struck the whole squad. No one would do any work till the question of slowing down the work was settled.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 1 Feb. b10/3 The union will strike company plants in five U.S. cities.
1978 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. a20/4 Photoengravers voted 177 to 0 yesterday to strike The New York Times and The Daily News.
d. To leave off (work), e.g. at the close of the day, at meal-times. Also absol.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > work at specific times or periods [verb (intransitive)] > stop work
to shut (one's) shop-windowc1478
to shut up one's shop1560
unyoke1594
to put up the shutters1877
to shut down1877
strike1890
stand1892
to knock off1916
1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xxx The work went on until six, when all hands struck and went off to their homes.
1891 M. E. Mann Winter's Tale II. 259 Another good hour's digging was due..before his day-labourer was justified in striking work and betaking himself homeward.
V. To deal a blow, to smite with the hand (occasionally another limb), a weapon or tool.The construction with cognate obj. (to strike a stroke, a blow) is common to most of the senses in this branch that admit of absolute or intransitive use. See blow n.1, stroke n.1
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25.
a. transitive. To deal (a person, an animal) a blow; to hit with some force either with the hand or with a weapon. Also with double object to strike (a person) a blow.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object
drepeOE
smitec1200
buffet?c1225
strike1377
rapa1400
seta1400
frontc1400
ballc1450
throw1488
to bear (a person) a blow1530
fetch1556
douse1559
knetcha1564
slat1577
to hit any one a blow1597
wherret1599
alapate1609
shock1614
baske1642
measure1652
plump1785
jow1802
nobble1841
scuff1841
clump1864
bust1873
plonk1874
to sock it to1877
dot1881
biff1888
dong1889
slosh1890
to soak it to1892
to cop (a person) one1898
poke1906
to hang one on1908
bop1931
clonk1949
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike with a weapon [verb (transitive)]
areach1014
maulc1225
hitc1275
smitec1275
reachc1330
strike1377
to cut over1867
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 14 Al-þough þow stryke me with þi staffe with stikke or with ȝerde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12429 Þe maister..Gaf iesu wit hand a strak; For he him strak wit na resun, Ded in þe place þar fell he dun.
1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 283 Socrates walkenge in a cite, and strynken [sic; Trevisa evel i-smete on the heed; L. colapho percussus] of a symple felowe.
1556 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 255 Thomas Cartwright..offered to stricke with the mase certen of the defendants.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xxvi. 68 And other smote his face with the palmes of their hands, saying, Prophecie vnto vs O Christ: who is he that strooke thee?
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. E Cursed be hee that stroke his holinesse a blow [on] the face.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 140 Laying 'em flat on their Belly, and stricking them with a Rope across the Breech.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i 'Till he yowl'd sair she strak the poor dumb tyke.
1824 Examiner 539/2 [He] struck the boy a violent blow.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlix. 435 You may strike me if you like, Sir, or hit any cruel blow.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xxxviii. 44 Glanydon..forgetting that he was a captive, had once struck in the face a Prætorian officer who insulted him.
b. absol. and intransitive. To deal or aim a blow with the fist, a stick, etc. Const. at. Also to strike back, out.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike or deliver blows [verb (intransitive)]
slay971
smitelOE
flatc1330
flap1362
acoupc1380
frapa1400
girda1400
hit?a1400
knocka1400
swap?a1400
wapa1400
castc1400
strike1509
befta1522
to throw about one1590
cuff1596
to let down1640
dunch1805
yark1818
bunt1867
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxv. 182 He stroke at me with many strokes rude.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/1 I stryke at the gaynest, or at all adventures, as one dothe that is in afraye and taketh no hede where or howe he stryketh.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 129 Strike & thou wilt, said he, so thou wilt heare me.
1644–66 J. Caryl Expos. Job xii. 5, 6 (1676) I. 1118 Many are striking at thy heels, but they cannot strike them up, while God holds thee up.
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. 128 If by our Law, he who strikes with his fist, or a batton..be punishable by death.
1798 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell i. 195 And the blows fell with heavier weight As Peter struck—and struck again.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 23 His dwarf,..Struck at her with his whip.
1894 E. A. Haggard Drummer Boy vii [He] was hot-blooded enough, and quite ready to strike back if struck.
26.
a. transitive. To hit, smite (a material, an object) with an implement, esp. with one designed for the purpose. Also with cognate object.†In early use also with phrase expressing the result, as to strike to powder.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > driving or beating tools
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pin1875
pile-drive1894
staple gun1960
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7018 Þe devels..with hamers gyf swa gret dyntes, Þat alle to powdre moght stryke hard flyntes.
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxx. 163 As Quheit is strukin for [read fro] the stra besyde.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 297 Flagellum,.. a battledarre wherwith the ball is striken.
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 187 Fire..is forced out of the flint being stroken with a gad of steele.
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 19 [Billiards.] Wooden Boxes for the hazards..are nothing near so commendable as the former [i.e. nets], because a Ball struck hard is more apt to flie out of them when struck in.
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 19 [Billiards.] If the head [of the cue] happen to be loose, you will never strike a smart stroke.
1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/2 If a ball is nipp'd up, and he strikes her again wilfully..it's out.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. v. 153 Substances should be made red hot, and struck in that state, until they are sufficiently cracked.
1866 ‘Capt. Crawley’ Billiard Bk. iv. 43 A ball struck moderately hard will traverse the table three or four times from end to end.
figurative.1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 663 Wit now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark, Sufficient to redeem the modern race From total night and absolute disgrace.
b. absol. and intransitive. To make a stroke with a hammer or other implement; spec. in Smithing.to strike while the iron is hot: see iron n.1 Phrases 4.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (intransitive)] > driving or beating tools
strike1340
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1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7013 And als smyths strykes on þe yren fast.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 740/2 The poore smyth ryseth at foure of the clocke to stryke with his hammer upon his anvelde.
a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Ciijv I haue plied the Haruest, and stroke when the Yron was hotte.
1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. ii. v. sig. Eiiiv Play you now the wise man, & strike the Iron whiles it is hot.]
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 122v Strike vpon the head of euery nayle with the hammer.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xii. 487 He..of my present absence tooke His fit aduantage, and their iron strooke At highest heate.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) v. i. 49 Strike now, or else the Iron cooles. View more context for this quotation
1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket iii. 22 The Champion strikes. When, scarce arriving fair, The glancing Ball mounts upwards in the Air.
a1841 T. Hook Ned Musgrave i Taking the poker in his right hand, and striking at a large coal placed on the summit of the grate, [etc.].
1866 ‘Capt. Crawley’ Billiard Bk. iii. 27 Between the thumb and forefinger you place the Cue, in taking aim before you strike.
1890 W. E. Norris Misadventure II. x. 138 She struck while the iron was hot.
c. trans. to strike (a prisoner) in the boots: to crush the limbs by driving wedges between them and the iron boots as a form of torture (cf. boot n.3 3). Obsolete exc. Historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > with the boot
boot1580
strikea1715
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 583 When any are to be struck in the boots, it is done in the presence of the Council.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 291 They..directed the magistrates of Edinburgh to strike the prisoner in the boots.
27.
a. With adverb complement or phrase: To remove or drive (a thing) with a blow of an implement or the hand. Cf. to strike down at Phrasal verbs.Now somewhat rare; formerly common in contexts where some other vb., as knock, would now be used.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by impact or force > by striking or beating
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to knock down1653
to knock in1669
stave1837
whip1868
slog1884
to beat down-
1450 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 12 The lede tane vp, and the bodome strukken owt.
1499 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 75 It is statute that na persoun sell nor tap derrer beir than for xvj d. the galloun, vnder the payne of strikken furth of the heid of the barrell.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lv. 188 He..strake out braynes with the pomell of his swerd.
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Eiii After halfe a dosen blowes he strycks his staffe out of his hand.
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 217 After his sole and onely eie was stroken out.
1612 H. Peacham Minerua Britanna ii. 113 The Tennis-ball, when strucken to the ground, With Racket,..doth back againe rebound.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 357 Hee commanded my irons to bee strooke off.
1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia xiv. 45 Then were his teeth struck out.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 51 You may strike a nail in at the hole.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 90 You may stiffen it by striking a wooden wedge between the Mortess and the Staff.
1680 Reg. Privy Counc. Scot. 3rd Ser. VI. 389 Udney..caused strick two old pewes out of their hinges.
1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/2 If in running a notch, the wicket is struck down by a throw..it's out.
1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/2 He that catches the ball must strike a stump out of the ground ball in hand.
1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 392 Those who before had favoured him, now prepared to strike the weapon from his hand.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! ix Strike their swords down, Raleigh, Mackworth!
1910 J. McCabe Prehist. Man iii. 40 The..knife (a long flake of flint, struck off the core at one blow).
In figurative context.a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiv Adversyte. Of some of theyr chyldren I stryke out the eye.a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) viii. 182 The Lord struck the bottom out of my discouragement.1814 W. Scott Let. 17 June (1932) III. 450 The huge bulk of his power..was obviously to sink when its main props were struck away.1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. vi. 154 The tasted cup is stricken from us ere we have done more than taste.
b. figurative. To remove suddenly as with a blow, to dash.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > suddenly or quickly > (as) with a blow
strike1599
slat1828
flick1846
1599 T. Storer Life & Death Wolsey sig. F3v No strokes of Musickes sound could strike away, High thoughts by night, nor deepe conceits by day.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. v. 138 I shall love to see the sense of approaching death strike the colour from that ruddy cheek.
1891 Strand Mag. 2 483/1 I began to laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight of his face.
28. To stamp with a stroke.
a. To impress (a piece of metal, coin), stamp (a medal) with a device by means of a die; to coin (money); †also absol. Also to strike off.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > coining > coin (money) [verb (transitive)]
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smitea1387
forgec1400
printc1400
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moneyc1450
mintc1520
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beat1614
1449 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 37/1 Ande at nane tak one hande to strik in tym to cum bot þai þat has or sal haf commandment of the king vnder his grete sele.
1451 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 39/1 Þai think it expedient..at þar be strikyn in þis realme new mone conformyt ewin in wecht to the mone of Inglande.
1463 Stat. Irel. 3 Edw. IV c. 32 To make and strike..iiij. peces of brasse or coper rennyng at j.d. of oure said siluer.
c1519 R. Amadas in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. xxviii. 295 Item iij gilte Boolls withe a Cover strekin withe Martletts.
1526 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 325.
1551 J. Williams Acct. Monastic Treasures (1836) 86 Grotes stricken withe harpes.
1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. David II in Regiam Majestatem 44 Ane notable signe salbe vpon it, quhereby it may be evidently knawen fra all other money alreadie striken.
1687 H. Slingesby Let. 11 Oct. in S. Pepys Diary (1879) VI. 157 The medalls made by Roettiers, of which I had an opportunity to chuse the best struck off.
1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough II. 42 A fine Medal was struck..on Occasion of the Victory.
1775 London Chron. 18–20 May 474/3 Giles Forrester, Dereham, and Williams were charged with striking half-pence.
1775 London Chron. 18–20 May 474/3 They seized eight shillings and four-pence halfpenny, with the dies for striking.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 620 Till the reign of Charles the Second our coin had been struck by a process as old as the thirteenth century.
1879 H. Phillips Addit. Notes upon Coins 3 This medal appears to have been chased by hand and not to have been struck from a die.
figurative.1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 172 These scriptural plays..seem struck in the same mint.
b. To impress (a device) upon; also to impress (a die, etc.) with a device.
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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > imprint [verb (transitive)] > with stamp or device
printa1387
strike1551
stamp1564
incuse1864
date-stamp1893
rubber-stamp1893
1551 J. Williams Acct. Monastic Treasures (1836) 77 For..strickinge the kinges armes vpon the plates in the busholles of a paier of pottes parcell gilte.
1639 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 120 To Mr. Horsley for strikeing my Lord Deputyes coate on the organs, 4 s.
1820 T. Hodgson Ess. Stereotype Printing 102 The page..composed with these types..would become..one complete matrice, with which the plates, in relief and in reverse, could be struck.
1820 T. Hodgson Ess. Stereotype Printing 107 The operation of striking the matrices.
c. To impress or print by means of type, an engraving or the like; to print. Obsolete except in to strike off.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > [verb (transitive)]
imprint1477
impress1508
print1511
stamp1555
press1579
pull1653
to take off1707
to throw off1720
strike1759
typefy1856
1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 99 The Assembly..finding both to be such as required an Extension of their Paper Currency..unanimously resolved to strike an additional Sum of 20,000 l.
1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 13 Mar. 142 Since a few of this day's papers were struck off, we hear the above ship is a man of war.
1790 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 108 They can make use of that gentle means of striking paper to satisfy their demands.
1838 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 105 New title-pages can be struck off at a trifling expense.
1866 Athenæum 3 Nov. 571/3 These few extra copies I have always had struck off by the printer.
1892 Temple Bar Sept. 53 Send it to the printer to strike off a certain number of proofs.
d. To stamp (velvet, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > variegation > variegate [verb (transitive)] > specifically of textiles
shoot1532
strike1701
shot1847
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > treat or process textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > other processes
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Schreiner1905
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1701 London Gaz. No. 3754/8 A Stuff Gown of Red and Blue Chequer-work, lined with a Norwich Stuff struck with Blue and dark-colour.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 30 Nothing..can compare with the beauty of these velvets, or with the art necessary to produce such an effect, while the wrong side is smooth, not struck through.
e. figurative. To imprint on the mind. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > have an effect on [verb (transitive)] > cause to have effect on
set971
incuss1527
incute1542
infix1542
strike1615
burna1840
1615 J. Taylor Faire & Fowle Weather sig. A4 I wish my Verse should such Impression strike, That what men Read off, they should thinke the like.
1651 in M. Sellers Acts Eastland Co. (Camden) Introd. 47 If there were but a motion of this remotion, I doubt not but it would strike a sad impression into their minds.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. x. 66 There seems to be a constant decay of all our Ideas, even those which are struck deepest.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. ii. 206 Those Beautys which strike a sort of Melancholy.
f. Cinematography. To make (another print) from a motion picture film.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > printing > print [verb (transitive)]
print1851
step print1953
strike1970
1970 A. Fowles Dupe Negative xiv. 192 I've got four hundred feet of 35 mm. ECO original here... How long will it take to strike a master positive?
1970 A. Fowles Dupe Negative xiv. 196 The piece of film that actually runs through the camera is called the original..from which all subsequent prints are struck.
29.
a. Without the notion of great force: To tap, rap, knock. Also with cognate or double object, and intransitive with on, upon.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (intransitive)] > lightly
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pat1601
dib1869
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike lightly
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1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 237 Wallace..Straik at the dure with his fute hardely.
1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. xviii. 24 When any man is made a knight, he kneeling downe is stroken of the prince, with his sworde naked.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. Q2v Tho with her sword on him she flatling strooke, In signe of true subiection to her powre. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 32 Goe bid thy Mistresse, when my drinke is ready, She strike vpon the Bell. View more context for this quotation
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 118 He..Strikes his brest hard, and anon, he casts His eye against the Moone. View more context for this quotation
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. iv. 75 There is one that strikes on a small Gong, or a wooden Instrument, before every stroke of the Oar.
1733 A. Pope Epitaph Gay in Gentleman's Mag. June 319 The worthy and the good shall say, Striking their aching bosoms, Here lies Gay.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. v. 158 If he get not access to the house, he must strike six knocks at the gate.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 446/1 Tutenag..is very sonorous when struck.
1844 E. M. Sewell Amy Herbert I. xii. 214 I do think if I had but a fairy's wand, I should strike them all as they came into the house, and change them into boys.
1889 A. E. Barr Feet of Clay ix. 159 He struck the table a blow.
1897 Pall Mall Mag. XIII. 40 I struck sharply upon the glass of the window.
indirect passive.1653 H. Cogan tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. v. ii. 177 A huge brazen table, which being strucken upon, yeelded..a dreadfull sound.
†b. To beat (time). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [verb (transitive)] > mark rhythm or measure > by beating, etc.
strike1665
noddle1788
wave1851
tambourinate1913
stomp1925
stomp1973
1665 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (ed. 2) 136 This harmony would not last long, did not the Chief Musician strike time and measure.
c. To beat or sound (a drum, etc.), esp. in order to ‘beat up’ for recruits or as a signal to march; to sound (an alarm) on a drum (said also of the drum). Also, to strike up. Also absol. Obsolete exc. Historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > sound signal on instrument [verb (transitive)] > on drum
strike1572
beata1640
tom-tom1824
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > beat drum [verb (transitive)]
tucka1400
strike1572
tamper1606
ruff1675
rub-a-dub1855
1572 Charters etc. Peebles (1872) 342 The counsale..Ordanis the haill inhabitantis..to be in ane reddynes, quhen the swische strykis..to pas with thair baillies quhair thai pleis.
1577 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. II. 641 Licence to stryke drummis, display handsenzies, and lift and collect the saidis cumpaneis of futemen.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse Ep. Ded. sig. ☞3v I may seeme wel ynough to strike vp the drum, & bring al my power to a vayne skirmish.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch iv. vii, in Terence in Eng. 167 From whence I will strike vp alarme to shew when you shall beginne.
1612 R. Coverte True Rep. Englishman 24 They strooke vp their drums and were in Armes, taking vs to be Portugales.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. viii. 50 Drummer strike vp, and let vs march away. View more context for this quotation
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 138 Neither did they strike kettle-drums again at the head of that famous regiment until they behaved themselves so notably at the field of Leipsic.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 661 The kettledrums struck up: the trumpets pealed.
d. To touch (a string, a key of an instrument) so as to produce a musical note; poetic to play upon (a harp, lyre, etc.). Also †intransitive const. upon.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > play instrument [verb (transitive)] > play with fingers
toucha1387
finger?1521
strike1565
thumb1593
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Pulsus Nerui in fidibus pulsi, stringes stroken.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxv. 446 A passion that fadeth away like the sound of a Lute, when the player ceasseth to strike.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 53 He that striketh an instrument with skill, may cause notwithstanding a verie vnpleasant sound, if the string whereon he striketh chaunce to be vncapable of harmonie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 98 Musick; awake her: Strike.
a1650 King Estmere lviii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 54/2 He stroake upon his harpe againe.
1677 Ld. Guildford Philos. Ess. Musick 18 A great string struck near the Bridge with a Bow..will whistle and break into chords above; which if it were struck by the thumb..would give the true Tone.
1713 A. Pope Ode Musick 4 But hark! he strikes the golden Lyre!
1795 R. Southey Joan of Arc (1853) iv. 41 Meantime the Trouveur struck the harp.
figurative.1579 J. Melville Diary (1829) 60 They dwelt verie commodiuslie togidder,..all strak on a string and soundet a harmonie.1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E3v I will warble to the delicious concaue of my Mistresse eare: and strike her thoughts with The pleasing touch of my voice.a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 310 That soule, who, whatsoever string be strucken in her, base or treble, her high or her low estate, is ever tun'd toward God.1828 Mirror V. 102/2 My muse shall strike a loftier string.1831 E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. i. iii. 67 They struck upon a chord which vibrated to the heart of every Israelite.
30. To produce by percussion.
a.
(a) To produce (fire, a spark) by percussion, esp. by the percussion of flint and steel. Chiefly in the phrase to strike fire. Also, to strike out.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > produce by striking > specific fire or sparks
to smite firec1300
strike?c1450
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] > kindle or set alight > produce (fire or spark) by striking
slayc1000
strike?c1450
to strike a light1684
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 823 Þan of flynt fyre þai strake, And made a fyre.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 424 To strike fier with a flint, excutere silicis scintillam.
1578–9 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 117 For an yron to stryke fyer with in the revestrie, 3 d.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. ii. sig. C4v Showers of dartes may darke Heauens ample browe: but not strike out a sparke.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. ii. 119 The manner to strike fire in rubbing two stones one against another, as some Indians vse.
1725 London Gaz. No. 6447/4 One of the said Persons did strike Fire.
1755 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 129 I must observe, that no man can strike fire with a feather.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake v. 218 Blair-Drummond sees the hoofs strike fire.
1862 Temple Bar 6 169 The fire which is struck out of a flint.
1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xvii Two flints strike fire.
absolute.a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. i. 141 Strike on the tinder, Ho: Giue me a taper. View more context for this quotationfigurative and in extended use.a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 177 I am glad that my weake words Haue strucke but thus much shew of fire from Brutus. View more context for this quotation1637 R. Ashley tr. V. Malvezzi Davide Perseguitato 103 That light, which untill it be stricken out doth never appeare.1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther i. 5 My pride struck out new sparkles of her own.1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 4 O thou! whose Word from solid Darkness struck That spark, the Sun; strike Wisdom from my soul.1891 A. Gissing Moorland Idyl III. vi. 107 His words struck kindred sparks within herself.1893 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 10 277/1 Gleams of moonlight..struck a glitter from standing rain-pools.
(b) transferred. To cause (a match) to ignite by friction. Also intransitive of a match: To admit of being struck. The corresponding use of German streichen is an application of the sense ‘to rub’ (cf. 3 above), and only accidentally coincides with this use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or be on fire [verb (intransitive)] > catch fire or begin to burn > of a match
strike1880
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] > kindle or set alight > a match
strike1880
1880 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXVI. 653 They may strike their matches and light their candles if they will.
1892 Black & White 30 July 116/1 Matches that strike only on the box.
1903 Longman's Mag. July 252 He struck a match on his thole-pin.
1957 ‘R. West’ Fountain Overflows i. 14 And I think the matches are wet, they won't strike.
1962 J. Braine Life at Top ii. 31 I heard a match strike and smelled cigar smoke.
(c) to strike a light: to produce a flame with flint and steel or by the friction of a match. Also (chiefly Australian and New Zealand) imperative as a mild imprecation (cf. sense 46c).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] > kindle or set alight > produce (fire or spark) by striking
slayc1000
strike?c1450
to strike a light1684
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 184 Wherefore he strook a Light (for he never goes also without his Tinder-box). View more context for this quotation
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xii. 235 A light being struck, a fire was kindled.
1820 W. Scott Monastery III. iii. 71 The means of striking light were at hand in the small apartment.
1892 Temple Bar Apr. 471 He felt for his matches and struck a light.
figurative.1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. viii. 381 If we were not to see but by striking a light to ourselves, we must for ever be in the dark.imp.1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad vi. 44 ‘Strike a light!’ he broke in suddenly. ‘See them?’1960 I. Cross Backward Sex ii. 39 ‘Strike a light,’ he hissed... ‘Get over here, quick,’ he said. ‘Have a bloody look, man.’
b. To produce (music, a sound, note) by touching a string or playing upon an instrument; hence gen. to sound (a particular note). Also said of the instrument. Cf. to strike up at Phrasal verbs.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > play instrument [verb (transitive)] > play (music) on instrument
playc1330
touchc1425
strike1597
to play up1750
instrumentalize1853
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 95 I greatlie mislike..your causing the treble strike a sharpe eight to the base.
1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. F4v Nor famous lute of cuning Amphion, Struike neuer note so pleasant to the eir.
1610 J. B. Besardo Observ. Lvte-playing in R. Dowland Var. Lvte-lessons sig. Cv The Note following though it be measured with a new measure, must be strooke with the fore-finger.
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn ix, in Poems 5 Such musick sweet..As never was by mortall finger strook.
1787 J. Wolcot Ode upon Ode in Wks. (1816) I. 310 Didst ever see this lady striking A Upon her harpsichord, with bending ears?
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay i. 16 Her reply was to strike a few chords, and begin a sweet, wild, plaintive air.
1892 Graphic 9 Apr. 468/2 With one hand we strike three or four notes simultaneously.
figurative.1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. App. Whatever note he [Shakespeare] takes, he strikes it just and true, and awakens a corresponding chord in our own bosoms.1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert iv. 30 What did, perhaps, strike an incongruous note was the presence of various implements of sport.
c. To make (a door through), to open out (a window) by knocking a hole through a wall. Scottish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make (a door or window) by
strike1652
1652 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 40 She caused also a doore to be struken throughe the wall of her chamber, for to goe to the wine cellar.
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate v It is not, however, prudent to commence with throwing stones, just when I am striking out windows of my own.
31.
a. To pierce, stab, or cut (a person. etc.) with a sharp weapon. Also with double object. Also with complement to strike dead, to (the) death. to strike through, to transfix. Also, †to cut (a gash).Now rare except as a contextual variety of sense 25; the verb would now hardly be used with reference to a thrust or stab, unless inflicted by a downward movement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by stabbing or cutting
snithec725
ofstingeOE
stickOE
to sting to death13..
to put (do) to the sword1338
throata1382
to strike dead, to (the) deathc1390
hewc1400
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
poniard1593
stiletto1613
jugulate1623
kris1625
dagger1694
pike1787
to cut down1821
sword1863
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with sharp weapon
woundc760
stickOE
snese?c1225
stokea1300
steekc1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
chop1362
broach1377
foinc1380
strikec1390
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
stitch1527
falchiona1529
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
stob?1530
rutc1540
rove?c1550
push1551
foxa1566
stoga1572
poniard1593
dirk1599
bestab1600
poach1602
stiletto1613
stocka1640
inrun1653
stoccado1677
dagger1694
whip1699
bayonetc1700
tomahawk1711
stug1722
chiv1725
kittle1786
sabre1790
halberd1825
jab1825
skewer1837
sword1863
poke1866
spear1869
whinger1892
pig-stick1902
shiv1926
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with sharp weapon
chop1362
slash1382
strikec1390
rutc1540
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > transfix
through-driveOE
through-nimc1275
stickc1330
through-piercec1330
to stick througha1382
preenc1390
spitc1430
thirlc1450
broacha1470
prickc1475
to stick up1528
transfix1590
fix1638
bestick1667
impalea1678
spiculate1835
skewer1837
to strike through1893
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 567 A whit kniht..Baar him doun of his hors..strok him stark ded.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 18018 Mine eldrin folk of iuen lede Haue I done rise againes him, To strike him wid a spere ful grim.
1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 392 It is talkyd here howe þat..on of Howardys me[n] sc[h]uld a strekyn yow twyess wyth a dagere.
1515 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 156 He was adiugeit to be had to the trone and thair strikkin throw the hand.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6258 If any stert vpon stray, strike hym to dethe!
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 655 The Lorde Clyfforde,..putting of his Gorget, sodaynely wyth an arrowe..was striken into the throte.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Zii To rescue Phedimus and Tantalus ystrick with pearcing shaft yfere.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxi. sig. Cc6v She ranne to her sonnes dagger, and..strake her selfe a mortall wound.
a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) i. 19 That is Lacyes Case, where one was stricken on the Seas, and dyed on the Land, that the Common Law could not try this murther.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xvi. 423 He strook a deep gash into his own thigh.
1745 R. James Medicinal Dict. III. at Styptica Trials were made..by stricking a Cock through the Head [etc.].
1825 W. Scott Talisman xv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 358 The Templar struck him to the heart with a Turkish dagger.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. iii. 105 The maid-servant, in a sudden access of insanity, struck her mistress to death with a coal-axe.
1893 Longman's Mag. June 114 What is to prevent me striking you through where you stand?
b. figurative. Of a feeling, etc.: To pierce (a person to the heart, to the quick).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > intense emotion > affect intensely [verb (transitive)]
thirlc1315
piercec1390
thrilla1400
strikec1475
throb1600
penetratea1616
heart-strikea1637
transfix1649
sink1771
shoot1842
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 2 Wan þe heldar gifiþ ensaumple to þe ȝong to deþ, þer is he to be stregun [St. Gregory feriendus est] wiþ scharp blamyng.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. iii. sig. O.ii The sodayn dreade of euery bodely payne woundeth vs to the hearte and striketh our deuocion starke dead.
a1540 R. Barnes Lawfull for Priestes to marry Wiues in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) ii. 328/2 The which thyng, when S. Gregory saw, stroke hym sore to the hart.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. iv. sig. B4v Strike me quite through with the relentlesse edge Of raging furie.
1674 Fox in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1914) July 100 When shee hard of my being stoped by ther impresen mee it strok her to the hart that shee died.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 111 Humility disarms Envy, and strikes it dead.
1712 R. F. tr. Du Bos Hist. League Cambray ii. 111 The News of the loss of Bologna, struck Pope Julius the 2d to the Heart.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art lvi, in Poems (new ed.) 84 She fell, Like Herod, when the shout was in his ears, Struck thro' with pangs of hell.
c. With adverb complement or phrase: To remove or separate with a cut. Now rare except in to strike off 2 at Phrasal verbs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > with violence > strike off
off-smitec1275
strikec1320
ofgreetc1330
swapa1375
strikec1386
c1320 Sir Beues 637 And sum he strok of þe swire.
c1440 Generydes 6375 Downe by the cheke his ere away he strake.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 44 And heke hedes þou take with stalk in fere, Þat is in peses þou stryke.
c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 362 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 17 Þan Nero bad a man suld ga, and strik symonis nek intwa.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xix. 415 His brother richarde wolde have stryked the hede fro the body of hym.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 270 in Poems (1981) 14 Muttoun and beif, strikin in tailȝeis greit.
c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas iii. in Wks. (1898) I. 222 The anchore roape, With shyning sword vnsheath't, in twaine he stroake.
a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 213 That Nation, who stroke the Head from the Grandmother, may make small Reckoning to do the same to the Grandchild.
1831 Examiner 711/2 The soldier..struck the head from the body.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous x, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 241 Turnbull..struck from a neighbouring oak-tree a branch.
32.
a. absol. and intransitive (also with cognate object). To deliver a cut or thrust with a sharp weapon. Also said of the weapon. Const. at, †to, †unto.Phrase † without (a) stroke (or a blow) stricken (and variants), without any fighting. Cf. French sans coup férir.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > strike with sharp weapon [verb (intransitive)]
hewc993
strike1340
slash1548
society > armed hostility > peace > non-belligerency > [adverb] > without fighting
without (any) stroke (of sword)c1400
without (a) stroke (or a blow) stricken1598
without fighting a stroke1720
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7346 Þe devils ay omang on þam salle stryke.
c1430 Chev. Assigne 333 Thenne he stryketh a stroke..Euen his sholder in twoo.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 234 He smertly rais, And, strikand, rowm about him mais.
a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) l. 774 And sykurly can they stryke and threste.
1518 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 137 They met hym agen..and stroke at hym one of them wyth a knyffe.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8760 A meruelous ymage..with a noble sword..Vp holdand on high as he þat wold stryke.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. x. 171 By the comming of the Parthians, the Hiberi were driuen out without stroke striking [L. sine acie].
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads iii. 369 This said, he shooke, and threw his lance; which strooke through Paris shield.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. ii. 21 To banish him that strooke more blowes for Rome Then thou hast spoken words. View more context for this quotation
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xlv. 113 Pillage..all winked at, and vnpunished, although such prizes haue beene rendred without stroake stricken.
1632 T. Hawkins tr. P. Matthieu Vnhappy Prosperitie 222 The offer..had assured him of the whole Iland without a blow strucken.
1677 Earl Castelhaven in C. E. Pike Essex Papers (1913) II. 92 With~out a stroke striking all the greate townes will submit unto him.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 34 Like Lightning flam'd their Fauchions..; so strong they strook, There seem'd less Force requir'd to fell an Oak.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 73 The Fellow..struck at the Spaniard with his Hatchet.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. ix. 125 Assaulting a judge, sitting in the court, by drawing a weapon, without any blow struck, is punishable with the loss of the right hand.
1843 T. B. Macaulay Horatius xxxviii Herminius struck at Seius, And clove him to the teeth.
1861 Temple Bar 2 120 Shot down before I could strike a blow.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xlii. 92 Even the soldier who had raised his hand to strike stood amazed, and delayed his blow.
in figurative context.1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 203 Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike.
b. figurative, esp. in to strike at, to aim at the overthrow, destruction, or defeat of.
ΚΠ
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ii. viii. 84 Thou shalt stryke a stroke most dolorous that euer man stroke.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 3 He ouercam hunger in desert,..he strak ageyn veyn glorie vp on þe temple.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 37 Methocht Compassioun, wod of feiris, Than straik at me with mony astound.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxviijv It strake to her harte, like the sharpe darte of death.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxii. sig. Vu8 And hate, & spare not, for your worst blow is striken.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. iii. 6 Smile gentle heauens or strike vngentle death.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 112 It pleas'd the King his maister Very late to strike at me vpon his misconstruction. View more context for this quotation
1642 King Charles I Answer to Printed Bk. 29 The Regall Power was never before this time strucken at.
1645 W. Jenkyn Stil-destroyer Ep. Ded. sig. A3 The sin I here strike at, is very improperly called self-seeking.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1680 (1955) IV. 236 The Parliament now assembled, & which struck at the Succession of the Duke of York.
a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 283 This book struck chiefly against the Quakers.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 20 When first ambition struck at regal power.
1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Persians in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 474 Thy words strike deep, and wound the parent's breast.
1829 J. Mackintosh Speech 1 June in Hansard 1601 A measure which would..strike the death-blow to whatever attempts might be made on the part of other states.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation iii. ii. 432 It obviously strikes at the very foundation of the principle of accumulation.
1892 Sat. Rev. 14 May 581/2 The Revolution..began to strike at Church and King.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xxiii. 298 Every fresh proof of Anthony's love for her struck like a knife into her heart.
c. to strike at the root or foundation: to attempt or tend to the utter destruction or overthrow (of something).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > attempt or tend to destruction of
to strike at the root or foundation1550
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures > tending to utter destruction
strike?a1513
to strike at the root or foundation1550
1550 H. Latimer Serm. B viij So we Preachers..haue drawen our swerdes of Gods word, and stryken at the rootes of all euyll, to haue them cut downe.
1661 W. Lowther in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1911) 2nd Ser. 118 To disowne all Magistracy, and soe by dangerous consequence strike att the foundation of his Majestyes power.
1793 J. Bowles Real Grounds Present War with France (ed. 4) 71 Principles which strike at the root of all established Government.
d. to strike short, wide. (literal and figurative)
ΚΠ
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 471 Anone he finds him striking too short at Greeks.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 475 Pyrrus at Pryam driues, but all in rage, Strikes wide.
1745 J. Wesley Answer to Rev. Church 39 You strike quite wide of me still. I never said so of what I do.
1820 Examiner 414/1 It appears to us then that this excellent and able actor struck short of the higher and imaginative part of the character.
33. In various specific uses of sense 31.
a. transitive. To prick (a horse) with the spur. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > urge on > spur
prickc1250
spurc1275
broach1330
prochea1425
strike1487
punye1488
chargea1500
spura1500
dig1530
to put (also set) (the) spurs to1553
spur1582
spura1644
rowel1765
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 226 Than vith the spuris he strak his steide.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby vi. 325 His charger with the spurs he strook.
b. To kill or wound (deer) with an arrow or spear, or with a gunshot. Said also of the weapon.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > kill animal [verb (transitive)] > by specific method
sticklOE
worry1340
strikea1400
spaya1425
lipc1475
smeek1691
pith1805
whoo-whoop1812
halal1819
to bark1865
destroy1866
flight1892
lethalize1897
lethal1922
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [verb (transitive)] > hunt deer > other deer-hunting actions
strikea1400
rechasea1450
harbour1531
lodge1575
blanch1592
fresh find1811
withe1839
flag1884
yarda1891
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 1069 Þe stede þar þis stith man strikis þis hert, Sagittarius forsoth men gafe it to name.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/1 I stryke a dere or any other wylde beest, as a huntar dothe..je enferre.
1568 in Archaeologia 35 206 A forreste..where my Lord strake iij. stagges with his gonne.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. P3 Didst not thou see a bleeding Hynde, Whose right haunch earst my stedfast arrow strake?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iii. 74 He that strikes The Venison first, shall be the Lord o' th' Feast. View more context for this quotation
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. v. 173 The huntsman-like fashion in which you strike your game.
c. To spear (a turtle), harpoon (a whale, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting other marine animals > hunt turtles [verb (transitive)] > spear turtle
strike1697
society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > [verb (transitive)] > harpoon
strike1697
fasten1726
harpoon1774
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 33 Our Moskito men went in their Canoa, and struck us some Manatee, or Sea-cow.
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 94 The spear with which the Indians strike the turtle, is made of very hard wood.
†d. To lance or cut (a vein). Also absol. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood of [verb (transitive)] > by venesection > cut a vein
strike1580
ventilate1706
broach1817
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 54v A white vaine beeinge striken, if at the first there springe out bloud, it argueth a good constitution of Bodye.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 409 Hauing striken [1658: stricken] it with a fleame, thrust out the ielly with your finger.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xxi. 350 The cure is eyther to stricke with your Fleame [etc.].
†e. To broach (a cask). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > open to use or a source > broach (a cask, etc.)
to set abroach1390
attame1393
abroachc1400
tame?a1412
broachc1440
to set a (on) broachc1440
strikea1616
tap1694
peg1721
spile1832
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 92 Strike the Vessells hoa. Heere's to Cæsar. View more context for this quotation
1717 M. Prior Alma iii. 426 L'Avare..Strikes not the present Tun, for fear The Vintage should be bad next Year.
f. Angling. To cause the hook to pierce the mouth of (a fish) by a jerk or sudden movement of the tackle; to hook. Also said of the hook or the rod. Also, to cause (a hook) to pierce the mouth. Also absol. In 16–17th centuries often figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > hook fish > strike
strike1580
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 57 Philautus who euer as yet but played with the baite, was nowe stroke with the hooke.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 168 That hooke of Wiuing, Faire~nesse, which strikes the eye. View more context for this quotation
1643 D. Digges Unlawfulnesse Subj. iv. 157 They are contented to give Him line enough, being confident they can strike Him when they please.
1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. x. 129 The hook hath strook their nostrils and they shall never escape the ruine.
1660 J. Dryden Astræa Redux 10 He like a patient Angler, er'e he strooke Would let them play a while upon the hook.
1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler iv. 44 If you strike a large Trout, and she..break hook or line.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 277 The second is a Spring Hooke, or Springer; it is a kind of double Hook with a spring,..which being strucken into the mouth of any fish, the 2 hooks fly asunder, and so keeps the fish mouth open.
1760 J. Hawkins in Walton's & Cotton's Compl. Angler 171 (note) You are to strike as soon as he has taken it [sc. the bait].
1881 Sportsman's Year-bk. 69 To try a roach rod's integrity to strike truly, place the rod on a table, and [etc.].
1892 Field 19 Mar. 402/1 The troutlings have to be struck sharply... High authorities say that salmon should not be struck at all.
34.
a. To hit with a missile, a shot, etc. Also said of the missile. Also with adverb or phrase (expressing the result). Now somewhat rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > of missile: hit
hitc1275
strike1377
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > of missile: hit > hit with missile
warpc888
shootc893
shoot1297
strike1377
nail1787
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 77 With stones men shulde hir stryke and stone hir to deth.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 804 Many starand stanes strikis of þaire helmes.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12151 Scho..with stonys in þe strete strok hom to ground.
1587 T. Saunders True Discr. Voiage Tripolie sig. Bijv And the second shot he strake vs vnder water.
1589 J. White in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 773 With one of our great shot their Master gonners shoolder was stroken away.
1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 114 We found 2. Eliphants which we strooke diuers times with harquebusses.
1662 A. Cooper Στρατολογια vi. 118 A Cannon bullet stroke off Sandies head.
1822 Examiner 215/1 Ali himself was struck down by a bullet.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 210 P. fired, striking him in the centre of the chest and killing him.
1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies i. 104 A group of schoolboys have piled their little books upon a grave, to strike them off with stones.
figurative.1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Dv Or like the deadly bullet of a gun: His meaning strucke her ere his words begun. View more context for this quotation
b. Curling. To hit (an opponent's stone) away, off with one's own. Also absol.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > curl [verb (transitive)] > actions
ride1771
draw1787
guard1787
strike1811
hog1822
inwick1823
outwick1830
promote1937
1811 J. Ramsay Acct. Game Curling 8 He attempts to strike away the stone of his antagonist.
1811 J. Ramsay Acct. Game Curling 8 To guard the stone of his partner..or to strike off that of his antagonist.
a1870 D. Thomson Musings among Heather (1881) 20 Keen curlers..draw, an' guard, an' wick, an' strike.
c. intransitive. Of a missile: To make a hit. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge missile [verb (intransitive)] > strike (of missile)
alightc1300
strike1589
1589 Summarie Drakes W. Indian Voy. 43 The first shot..strake through the Ensigne.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) vi. K 5 b In the left eye Of Scæua strucke the shaft.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 70 If the first Shot had struck under the Mark.
35.
a. intransitive. To use one's weapons: to fight. Also with cognate object. Const. for (a cause, one's king or country, etc.). Also, †to strike it out.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)]
fightc900
deal993
wraxlec1000
skirm?c1225
makec1275
mellc1300
to fight togethera1400
meddlec1400
match1440
wring1470
cobc1540
toilc1540
strike1579
beat1586
scuffle1590
exchange blows1594
to bang it out or aboutc1600
buffeta1616
tussle1638
dimicate1657
to try a friskin1675
to battle it1821
muss1851
scrap1874
to mix it1905
dogfight1929
yike1940
to go upside (someone's) head1970
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 41v The stoutest Souldier, when the Trumpet sounds, strikes fiercest.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades viii. 137 Both sides so soundly stroke it out, right doubtful was the fray.
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 32 They were neuer knowen to strike stroke amongst themselues.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 288 His present gift Shall furnish me to those Italian fields Where noble fellowes strike . View more context for this quotation
1825 W. Scott Talisman ix, in Tales Crusaders III. 218 He despairs of the security of Palestine..since the arm of Richard of England hath ceased to strike for it.
1842 W. C. Taylor Student's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) xii. §1. 312 [Cleomenes] followed by a few friends rushed through the streets of Alexandria, exhorting the multitude to strike for freedom.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. vii. 154 I should indeed like to strike one blow for the King, come what will.
1889 S. Walpole Life Ld. J. Russell II. xxviii. 314 Austria, though too angry to be silent, was too timid to strike.
b. transitive. To fight (a battle). Also, to strike up. Chiefly Scottish. Cf. stricken adj. 7.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > fight (a battle, etc.) [verb (transitive)]
smitec1325
fighta1400
strike1487
contest1614
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 152 Thar wes the battell strikyn weill.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 245 Quhen Bruce his battaill apon the Scottis straik.
1524 T. Wolsey in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 281 If bataile be not striken before the receipte of thies letters..ye shal [etc.].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. xv. 1 When Nicanor knewe that Iudas was in..Samaria, he thought with all his power to strike a felde with him vpon a Sabbath daye.
1544 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 292 Item, to ane barbour in Glasqw, eftir the feild strikkin on the mure of the samyn.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 372v/1 And so the battaile beyng strocken vp, the armyes began to ioyne.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 88 Claudius Pulcher..thereupon strucke a battaile at Sea.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. iv. 54 When Cressy Battell fatally was strucke . View more context for this quotation
1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross i. vii. 28 This Battel was struck with great Art and Skill upon either side.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. xii. 300 ‘The battle of Bosworth,’ said Master Mumblazen, ‘stricken between Richard Crookback and Henry Tudor.’
1850 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. (ed. 2) xi. 160 The day the battle of Killiecrankie was stricken.
c. intransitive. To engage together in combat.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > join or meet in battle
to come togetherOE
to lay togetherc1275
smitec1275
to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1297
joustc1330
meetc1330
copec1350
assemblea1375
semblea1375
coup?a1400
to fight togethera1400
strikea1400
joinc1400
to join the battle1455
to commit battle?a1475
rencounter1497
to set ina1500
to pitch a battlea1513
concura1522
rescounter1543
scontre1545
journey1572
shock1575
yoke1581
to give in1610
mix1697
to engage a combat1855
to run (or ride) a-tilt1862
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 785 Now athire stoure on þar stedis strikis to-gedire.
c1440 Generydes 2793 Generides ther mette..The Kyng Ruben, Redy with spere and sheld, And ther they strake to geder in the feld.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iii. vii. 107 [They] stroke to gyders myghtely.
d. Military. To make an offensive blow, to attack. Const. with at. Also transitive to attack (in flank, etc.): cf. sense 68.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)]
to lay ona1225
assailc1325
sailc1330
assemblea1375
to fall inc1384
to fall ona1387
givec1430
brunt1440
to set (all) on sevenc1440
to ding on1487
to fall down1534
offend1540
to go on1553
to give on?1611
to let fly1611
strikea1616
insult1638
to set on1670
aggress1708
to carry the war into the enemy's camp1791
hop over1929
society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)]
greetc893
overfallOE
riseOE
assail?c1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
onseekc1275
to set on ——c1290
infighta1300
saila1300
to go upon ——c1300
to turn one's handc1325
lashc1330
annoyc1380
impugnc1384
offendc1385
to fall on ——a1387
sault1387
affrayc1390
to set upon ——1390
to fall upon ——a1398
to lay at?a1400
semblea1400
assayc1400
havec1400
aset1413
oppressa1425
attachc1425
to set at ——c1430
fraya1440
fray1465
oppugn?a1475
sayc1475
envaye1477
pursue1488
envahisshe1489
assaulta1500
to lay to, untoa1500
requirea1500
enterprise?1510
invade1513
assemblec1515
expugn1530
to fare on1535
to fall into ——1550
mount1568
attack?1576
affront1579
invest1598
canvass1599
to take arms1604
attempt1605
to make force at, to, upon1607
salute1609
offence1614
strikea1616
to give a lift at1622
to get at ——1650
insult1697
to walk into ——1794
to go in at1812
to go for ——1838
to light on ——1842
strafe1915
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make attack [verb (intransitive)]
onreseeOE
onslayc1275
entera1425
to be upon (also on) a person's jack1588
endeavour?1589
to fall aboard1591
to let fly1611
strikea1616
to lift (up) the hand(s, (occasionally one's arm)1655
to fall on board (of)1658
tilt1708
to walk into ——1794
to run in1815
to peg it1834
to sail in1856
to wade in1863
to light in1868
to roll into ——1888
to make for ——1893
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. viii. 3 Strike not by Land, Keepe whole, prouoke not Battaile Till we haue done at Sea. View more context for this quotation
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) To strike at, to attack; to endeavour to destroy, directly or indirectly.
1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 231 To strike means to attack. ‘The Indians have struck on the frontier.’
1866 T. Seaton From Cadet to Colonel II. iii. 85 Lord Canning thought it advisable to strike a blow at Barrackpoor before the mutiny at Lucknow should become known.
1892 Sat. Rev. 2 Jan. 10/2 [He] divided his forces, struck where there was no use in striking, failed to strike at the essential point.
1893 Pall Mall Mag. 2 302 The French centre..was marching to strike it in flank.
36. transitive. With transferred object.
a. To deliver a blow with (the hand or something held in the hand), to bang, slap (the fist, hand), to stamp (the foot) on, upon, against. Also, to strike a horse with (the spur). Const. to, against (cf. 50).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > deliver a blow with
layc1330
strike1548
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clx [He] entered into London,..strykyng his sworde on London stone, saiyng: now is Mortymer lorde of this citie.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 44 He..strooke his armed heeles, Against the panting sides of his poore iade, Vp to the rowell head.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. i. 2 When I strike my foot Vpon the bosome of the ground, rush forth. View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 76 If with often striking the Pricker against the Tongue [of the Square] it becomes ragged.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. xi. 321 The Baron, striking his hand against the table, as if impatient of the long unbroken silence.
1862 Temple Bar 5 70 He struck the stock of his gun violently upon the ground.
1884 Graphic 25 Oct. 438/3 ‘That's a thing I'll think about’, rejoined the Baronet, as he struck spurs to his hack.
†b. To drive or thrust (a weapon, a tool); to make a cut or thrust with. Const. into, through.
ΚΠ
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 99 A felloun knyff fast till his hart straik he.
1556 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. 1 James Patyrson messenger strykis ane broch on Hendre Kar elder.
?1592 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things (new ed.) sig. D3 And stricke [1590 (STC 25152) sticke] their swords in their flesh like vnto a Scabbard.
c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas iii. in Wks. (1898) I. 387 The cursed blaide..Which in her breast vnto the hilts she strak.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxxv. 498 Unskilfully striking the Fleam into a Horse's Neck.
1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 46 You shall Strike into it a Fleam made of hard steel.
figurative and in extended use.1598 S. Brandon Tragicomoedi of Vertuous Octauia iii. D 3 In these respects, perhaps I could be brought, To strike reuenge as deepe as any could.1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 209 The Bitturn lying under, strikes his bill upward through the Hawkes gorge.
c. To cause (a tool, etc.) to make the required stroke. In Bookbinding, To cause (a hot tool) to make an impression in tooling (Webster 1911).
ΚΠ
1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xi. sig. G4v A Clocke, whose hammer was stricken by an Image like a man.
1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 6 ii. 255 The workman strikes the instrument towards the standing corn.
1877 De Vinne Invent. Printing (ed. 2) 517 It required great force..to strike the punch truly.
†d. To thrust (something pointed) in, into (a surface). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > insert something pointed
pickc1400
prickc1450
strike1576
stop1731
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 282 Yet God (I say) styrre vp some Edgar, to strike nayles in our cuppes.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 181 Bedlam beggers, who with roring voyces, Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare armes, Pins, wodden prickes, nayles, sprigs of rosemary. View more context for this quotation
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 345 Hee strake his staffe into the dry ground.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 10 Pegs struck into the ground.
†e. passive. To be struck full of (nails). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter or be dispersed [verb (intransitive)] > be scattered at intervals > be scattered with something
smite?1435
strike1610
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God i. xiv. 24 Shutting him..in a narrow barrell, strucken all full of sharpe nayles.
** Said of an animal.
37. Of a serpent or other venomous animal: To wound (a person) with its fangs or sting. Also absol. †Of a basilisk: To kill or injure (a person), dart out (venom) by its glance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > sting or bite
stingc888
pricka1200
to-sting?a1300
to-bite1375
bitea1382
stanga1400
tanga1400
strikec1480
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > injure by look
strike1592
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by poisoning
envenomc1300
venomc1330
poisonc1350
empoisona1375
stranglec1374
intoxicatec1450
impotionate1570
strike1592
to fig away1609
hemlock1846
strychninea1871
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 67 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 192 Þai cuth, be þare enchawnment, ger serpentis strik men ful sare.
1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. A.iij A certayne fisherman..chaunced to take vp..a Scorpion, which forthwith strake him.
1592 R. Greene Philomela sig. E2 He stood as mortified as if hee had beene strocken with the eye of a Baselisk.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 150 Would they were basiliskes to strike thee dead. View more context for this quotation
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 44 If that anie person hath either been wounded or strooken of any venomous liuing thing.
1617 Bp. J. Hall Quo Vadis? (new ed.) xv. 50 How many haue wee knowne stroken with these Asps, which haue died sleeping?
1621 F. Quarles Hadassa xii. sig. I2v Whose..visage sternly strikes Worse venime to mine eyes, than Basilisks.
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 135 in Poems If..either King Fall wounded down, strook with some fatal sting.
1837 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 163 Their music seems to irritate the snakes and incite them to strike.
1893 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 10 285/1 A hideous snake..had uplifted its triangular head to strike.
38.
a. To wound or attack with the heels, horns, tusks, claws, or any natural weapon. Also absol. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with natural weapon
strike1538
engore1590
horn1599
spur1631
mouth1693
tusk1818
fin1889
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike with a weapon [verb (transitive)] > strike with natural weapon
strike1538
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Recalcitro, to stryke with the heele, to kicke.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 307 Sanches d'Auila died, being stroke with a horse.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. i. iii. 249 A wilde boare, that by chance strooke him on the leg.
1705 M. Dalton Countrey Justice cxlv. 344 If a man hath an Horse of that property, that he will strike such as come near him.
1716 W. Hawkins Pleas Crown i. xxix. §12. 74 He..who kills another..by going deliberately with a Horse used to strike..among a Multitude of People.
1722 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 386 Having lost his Life by being struck by a Cow.
1883 G. M. Fenn Middy & Ensign lvi The tiger had struck the Malay down.
1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 382 Cu' by, or else t'hoss'll mebbe strike tha.
b. intransitive. To aim a blow with a natural weapon; to lash out (with the feet, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike (of weapon) [verb (intransitive)] > strike with natural weapon
strike1565
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Calcitro, a horse that flingeth or striketh.
1667 Duke of Newcastle New Method to dress Horses 184 Or when..he offers to Bite or Strike, then the Spurrs will Divert him.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 378 They strike with their claws; they bite each other.
1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. i. 128 If accidentally trodden on, it strikes backwards..and endeavours to wound the aggressor with the spines of its first dorsal fin.
1822 D. Johnson Sketches Field Sports India 107 Not long before this, he [the tiger] must have struck at a porcupine, as several of the quills were still remaining between the joints of one of his fore feet.
1893 Pall Mall Mag. 2 88 The giraffe has, too, a nasty habit..of striking out with its fore feet.
39. transitive.
†a. Of a bird of prey, esp. a falcon: To dart at and seize (its quarry or prey). Also intransitive, to dart at.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > bird of prey > [verb (intransitive)] > seize quarry
strike?a1513
foot1575
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures > tending to utter destruction
strike?a1513
to strike at the root or foundation1550
the world > animals > birds > bird of prey > [verb (transitive)] > seize quarry
trussa1470
foot1575
strike1632
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 59 The egill strong at him did stryke.
1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia 53 An Ægle.. having espied the Hare running, made wing, strake her, caught her up, and away.
1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 101 So th' eager Hawk makes sure of's prize, Strikes with full might, but overshoots himself and dyes.
1736 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ I. 432 As laying an infant in an orchard,..whereby a kite strikes it.
1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 1 The Vulture..is a fierce bold Bird, and will strike at any thing that comes near him.
1876 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxviii, in Monthly Packet July 44 His hawk was striking the quarry.
b. Of a greyhound: To seize (the hare) in coursing. Cf. striker n. 2f.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [verb (transitive)] > seize hare
strike1861
1861 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xiii But Ruin! you should see him lie behind the other dog all the run, and strike the hare at last.
c. intransitive. Of a fish: To seize the bait.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > [verb (intransitive)] > seize bait
strike1891
1891 Field 21 Nov. 774/2 Then another fish struck, but only to graze and kill the bait.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xviii. 137 He whipped the fly lightly within six inches of a little suction hole; a fish at once rose and struck.
*** Said of mechanism or the like.
40.
a. intransitive. Of a piece of mechanism: To make a stroke, hit or beat something.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > of mechanism: operate [verb (intransitive)] > strike
strikea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 282 Where thou didst vent thy groanes As fast as Mill-wheeles strike . View more context for this quotation
1725 T. Thomas in Portland Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 103 A very large fire engine for draining the coal pits..strikes (as they term it) or makes a discharge fourteen times in one minute.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 883 These..finish the grooving..at a single blow, by striking against each other, with the head of the needle between them.
1892 J. Wilkins Autobiogr. Eng. Gamekeeper 330 Particular attention should be paid to the striking of the trap, which ought to strike high, and strike quickly.
1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo viii. 87 On extracting the unexploded cartridge, I found that the needle had not struck home.
b. transitive.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > operate mechanism [verb (transitive)] > of mechanism: strike something
strike1787
1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxxi, in Poems (new ed.) 65 The auld kirk-hammer strak the bell Some wee, short hour ayont the twal.
41.
a. intransitive and transitive with cognate object. Of a clock: To make one or more strokes on its sounding part. Hence transitive to indicate (the hour of day) by a stroke or strokes; also with object a numeral designating the hour. Rarely with out.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [verb (transitive)] > strike
strike1417
chime1550
go1675
repeat1675
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > strike of clock
strike1417
chime1867
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (transitive)] > strike so as to chime > strike of clock
strike1417
chime1583
ting1877
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [verb (intransitive)] > strike or chime
smite1448
strike1550
1417 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 184 Efter xij of the clok be strekyn at the cathiderall church.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 140 Passyng the tyme..Tyll that the clocke did strike aleven.
1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 7 Quhill xij houris be struikin.
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes lxi. sig. Cv Thy tong should be a clock.., For than would it strike but once in one hower.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 45 The clocke hath strucken twelue vpon the bell. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Bacon Speech in Resuscitatio (1657) 86 Every Tuesday..after nine a Clock strucken.
1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 18 Till the clocke and our stomackes strike supper time.
1675 J. Smith Horol. Dialogues i. ii. 10 A moving wheel..indented..according to the number of strokes at each time to be strucken.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 5 The Bell strikes One.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. vii. 443 Four of the afternoon is struck.
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage I. v. 100 The neighbouring church clock struck out twelve slowly.
1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 234 A clock made to strike fourteen every hour.
1878 Bye-gones Dec. 147/1 Striking the day of the month. This practice, according to the Gents: Mag: for Sep. 1816, was in vogue in Pembroke at that period.
1892 Argosy Mar. 180 It struck four.
1902 R. Bagot Donna Diana xxvi. 331 Counting the hours as the clocks struck in the different quarters of the city.
b. intransitive in passive sense. Of the hour: To be indicated by the striking of the clock.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [verb (intransitive)] > strike or chime (of the hour)
strikea1417
chime1867
a1417 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 224 Fra evynsang ryng..on to the morne that prime stryke at the mynster.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. i. 1 Gard. It's one a clocke Boy, is't not. Boy. It hath strooke . View more context for this quotation
1787 E. Inchbald tr. A.-J. Damaniaut Midnight Hour iii. 30 I will sit up till twelve strikes.
1850 H. Melville White-jacket xxiii. 114 Two bells struck; and soon after, all who could be spared from their stations hurried to the half-deck.
c. figurative.Phrase. to strike twelve the first time or all at once (see twelve adj. 2b).
ΚΠ
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Biiij The Preachers of England begin to strike and agree like the Clockes of England.
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. Aii This day my years strike fiftie.
1606 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. If you know not Me sig. A2v A Marchants tongue Should not strike false.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 14 Looke, hee's winding vp the watch of his wit, By and by it will strike . View more context for this quotation
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. lv. sig. K3v One whose Tongue is strung vp like a Clocke till the time, and then strikes, and sayes much when hee talkes little.
1684 J. Norris Poems & Disc. 5 That Hour is come, The unerring Clock of Fate has struck.
1893 Pall Mall Mag. 2 201 He would have his time of danger after striking sixty.
1912 G. W. E. Russell Politics & Personalities (1917) iii. i. 201 Princess Victoria had now struck sixteen.
d. intransitive. Of a bell: To sound its note.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)] > bells
ringc1175
knella1375
clinkc1386
clapc1440
jangle1494
toll1551
knoll1582
chime1583
troll1607
tintinnate1623
swing1645
ding-dong1659
strike1677
jow1786
clam?a1800
to ring in1818
dinglea1839
to strike offa1843
dingle dongle1858
jowl1872
tankle1894
tintinnabulate1906
tong1907
1677 F. Stedman Campanalogia 32 By delaying its [sc. the treble's] striking untill the Second Bell has struck, it may by that means strike next after it.
1901 H. E. Bulwer Gloss. Techn. Terms Bells & Ringing 36 When two or more bells are ‘striking’ in succession.
e. causatively. To cause (a clock, a repeating watch) to sound the time; to cause (bells) to sound together.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (transitive)] > strike so as to chime > strike of clock > cause to
strike1675
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (transitive)] > sound bells together
clam1702
strike1901
1675 J. Smith Horol. Dialogues ii. v. 55 To do this strike your Clock gradually from eight to nine, and then from nine to ten, [etc.].
1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 22 Feb. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1108 Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. ix. 237 ‘Wants twenty minutes to six,’ observed Mr. Marmaduke, striking the repeater.
1893 National Observer 18 Nov. 17/1 I struck my repeater again, and found that midnight was past by two hours.
1901 H. E. Bulwer Gloss. Techn. Terms Bells & Ringing 37 Firing, striking all the bells together at successive pulls.
1901 H. E. Bulwer Gloss. Techn. Terms Bells & Ringing 37 The bells were ‘clammed’ or struck together by successive pairs.
42. intransitive. Of the pulse, heart: To beat, pulsate, throb. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [verb (intransitive)]
beatc1200
pulse?a1425
strike1583
pulsate1674
throb1725
tick1868
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xvi. 19 Ther pulse is great, and stryketh seeldome.
1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus ix. 20 And the mind all that while so disturbed..that the heart strikes five hundred sorts of Pulses in an hour.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. xiv. 295 His heart struck heavily when the house was visible.
**** Of natural or supernatural agencies.
43.
a. transitive. Of lightning, thunder, a thunderbolt: To descend violently upon and blast (a person or thing). Frequently in pass, constr. by, with, rarely of. Also to strike down.
ΚΠ
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxi. 140 We ware oft tymes striken doune to þe erthe with grete hidous blastez.
c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 312 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 355 He gert thonnir & fire-slacht stirk done þe payanis þar stracht.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 28 The thonder bolt..stryketh downe steples, and hyghe buildynges.
1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things vi. 140 Bodyes that are strucken with lyghtning, doo remayne vncorrupt.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. vii. sig. H2 Some serene blast me, or dire lightning strike This my offending face. View more context for this quotation
1663 R. Bayfield Τῆς Ἰατρικῆς Κάρτος 67 Cardanus reports of eight Mowers, which supping under an Oak were struck with thunder.
a1718 M. Prior Engraven on Column in Poems (1905) 206 Tho' Lightning strike the Dome again.
1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 121 The house had been struck with lightning.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Satia in Poems & Ballads 37 I wish you were stricken of thunder.
figurative.a1592 R. Greene Alcida (1617) sig. I4 Till I be strooken to death with loues thundering bolt.
b. with complement to strike dead, blind.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > of environmental or supernatural factors
smitea1382
strikec1480
blasta1533
perisha1549
thunderstrike1613
siderate1623
to strike dead, blind1750
1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 261 Stroken dead with a fearefull thunderclap.
1750 B. Franklin Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1751) 63 Lightning has often been known to strike people blind.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. III. xxxiii. 205 That flash..had struck me blind.
c. absol. and intransitive.
ΚΠ
1750 B. Franklin Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1751) 62 Electrified clouds passing over hills or high buildings at too great a height to strike, may be attracted lower.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 231 Which may result from the lightning striking upon a house not properly secured.
1884 Science 4 Jan. 3/1 There are no data for determining the..violence of lightning..or for discovering its possible preference for one or another..geological district when it ‘strikes’.
44.
a. transitive. Of God: To visit with lightning, esp. as a punishment. Also, to strike dead.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [verb (transitive)] > punish
smitelOE
punisha1325
scourgec1384
chasten1526
strike1577
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vii. xvii. 133 (note) Therefore God strooke Iulianus image from heauen with lightening and rent it in peeces.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 64 Either heauen with lightning strike the murtherer dead, Or earth gape open wide and eate him quicke. View more context for this quotation
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 188 Then for his crown th' old trembling souldier took An helmet, and at great Jove's altar strook, Fell like an ox.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 386 But he, the King of Heav'n,..launching from the Sky His writhen Bolt,..Down to the deep Abyss the flaming Felon strook.
b. Of a storm, earthquake, etc.: To ‘visit’ (a district, crop).
ΚΠ
1570 R. Sempill Poysonit Schot (single sheet) Swa mony stormes at onis Struke neuer land sa sair.
1613 H. Spelman De non temerandis Ecclesiis (1646) 30 When thy fruit and thy vineyard are strucken with haile.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 438 The island of St. George was struck by an earthquake.
1904 Sun (N.Y.) 23 Aug. 1 The storm twister struck Willow Lakes about 9 o'clock.
1976 Daily Mirror 16 July 13/3 Earthquakes killed 275 people and injured 2,000 early yesterday as they struck Indonesia's tropical holiday island of Bali.
45.
a. To bring suffering or death upon (a person, etc.) as with a blow; to afflict suddenly (with, by sickness, infirmity, death), esp. as a punishment. Also, to strike down. (Said chiefly of God or a deity.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > [verb (transitive)] > punish
curse1382
strikec1480
plague1481
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (intransitive)]
strikec1480
to do justice on (also upon)1587
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)]
slayc1175
to put to deatha1450
to hang, draw, and quarter1465
strikec1480
execute1483
justify1531
execution1565
scaffold1716
to have or get one's gruel1797
the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict > fall upon with adverse effect
to come on ——OE
strikec1480
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > of environmental or supernatural factors
smitea1382
strikec1480
blasta1533
perisha1549
thunderstrike1613
siderate1623
to strike dead, blind1750
c1480 (a1400) St. Justina 287 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 160 [The master devil said] sic lustful het sal be hir in, & eftyr hyr stirke sal I nere wodnes & frenesy.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/1 You shall se God stryke them when he seys hys tyme.
1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms lxxviii. 66 With Emrods in the hinder parts he strake his enimies all.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 127 Ananias and Saphira wes strukin be ane word of Petir to the deth.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 35 For lamb, pig and calfe..tithe so, as thy cattle, the Lord doo not strike.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1594) 333 When God stroke Zacharias, he made him dumbe, but not deafe.
c1610–15 Life St. Frideswide in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 82 God in defence of his spouse [St. Frideswide] stroke them with blyndnes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. i. 10 Gods,..so had you saued The noble Imogen, to repent, and strooke Me (wretch) more worth your Vengeance. View more context for this quotation
1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 123 He strikes..where the sinner least dreames to be strucken.
1870 J. Bruce Gideon iii. 59 Heavily the hand of the Lord had stricken him.
absolute.a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 263 Lord, hald thy hand that strikin hes so soir.a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonnets (1887) vii. 7 Quhen ȝe sulde stryk, I wald ȝe vnderstude; Quhen ȝe suld spair, I wish ȝe were bening.a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 22 This sorrowes heauenly, It strikes when it does loue.
b. Of a disease, etc.: To attack or afflict (a person) suddenly; to make infirm, lay low. Chiefly passive. To be attacked by, with (a disease). Also, to strike down.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > affect with disease [verb (transitive)] > attack
ofseche?c1225
takec1300
smitea1325
strike1530
infest1542
assault1594
attack1665
grip1818
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/2 He was stryken with the plage as he stode in his dore.
1602 W. Leigh Soules Solace in W. Harrison Deaths Advantage (ed. 2) 21 It may be some go to bed who neuer rise, strooken with a deadly sleepe or lethargie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. i. 14 Now the Red Pestilence strike al Trades in Rome. View more context for this quotation
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) iii. vii. §9 107 She was so struck in her fits that six men or more could not hold her.
1789 New London Mag. Oct. 510/2 The Earl was struck with death while drinking his coffee.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. v. 259 Hot old Marquis Mirabeau, lies stricken down, at Argenteuil.
1860 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 21 ii. 554 About 60 out of 280, chiefly shearlings, were struck with a chill.
1878 R. H. Hutton Scott xvii. 174 The climate struck him down, and he died at Teheran.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon II. 199 The Duke had been stricken by paralysis.
c. transferred.
ΚΠ
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxlix And though thou nowe be stryke with couetyse That vyce shall slake in the if thou aryse [etc.].
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 66 They are strucken with that pleasant folly of the Athenian who imagined all the riches..to be his.
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 212 Such, in the sight of God, is a soul which is struck by sin.
1891 Speaker 11 July 36/2 The fear is..that public life may be stricken with sterility in consequence of this veto.
d. In passive. Of a crop, of cattle: To be tainted or infected with a disease.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > disease or injury > be diseased, injured, or discoloured [verb (intransitive)]
burn?1523
blast1580
slaya1642
smut1657
fire1693
mowburn1707
go1735
strike1742
curl1793
gum1794
sunburn1833
French1836
rust1839
shank1848
houseburn1850
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > of cattle: become diseased [verb (intransitive)]
strike1742
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July iv. 45 Wheat mildew'd, blighted, or what we, in Hertfordshire, call Struck.
1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June xvi. 124 What we call Striking, or, in plainer Terms, the Glutinizing of the green Ears [of wheat] by the Fall of..Honey-dew.
1784 Ann. Agric. 2 65 (E.D.D.) [On theWeald of Kent] They have a distemper [in sheep] which they call struck with the blood.
1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iii. 327 They [lambs] have been struck with the fly late in the season.
1842 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3 ii. 199 In a bad case of mildew I have seen a large field of these early swedes struck in July.
1877 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire Struck with iron, an apoplectic seizure to which sheep and cows (gen. previous to their calving) are liable. They turn black.
46.
a. To deprive (a person) suddenly of life, or of one of the faculties, as if by a physical blow. Often with complement, as to strike dead, blind, deaf, dumb. Said of God, †of a planet (obsolete: cf. planet-stricken adj., planet-struck adj.), of witchcraft, etc., and of physical agencies, e.g. the sun, blinding light, or deafening noise. Also in passive, without implication of any definite agency: To become suddenly blind, dumb, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)]
derec888
wringa1529
strikea1535
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)]
derec888
marc1275
hurt1297
shond1338
teenc1380
offendc1425
tamec1430
wreakc1440
supprisea1450
mischiefc1450
mischieve1465
wringa1529
strikea1535
danger1538
bemarc1540
violate1551
damnify?a1562
injury1579
aggrievea1716
crock1846
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object > bring into specific condition by
smitea1325
strikea1535
ding1770
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy > and make speechless
to strike dead, dumb1533
strikea1535
bedumb1634
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. iv. sig. A.viiiv Sainct Paule was himselfe sore agaynst Chryst, tyll Christ..strake him starke blynde.
1595 Problemes of Aristotle M 2 Why are children strooken with a planet in the summer?
1595 T. Edwards Narcissus (Roxb.) 51 So was I gazing on this Orient Sunne Stroke blinde.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iv. i. sig. I3 Sure I was strooke with a Plannet then, for I had no power to touch my weapon. View more context for this quotation
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 356 He [Peter] stricke them both [Ananias and Sapphira] dead at his feet.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §276 It is an old Tradition, that those that dwell near the Cataract of Nilus are strucken deaf.
a1628 R. Daborne Poor-mans Comfort (1655) i. sig. B3 Osw. Some dismall planet strike you ever mute.
a1628 R. Daborne Poor-mans Comfort (1655) iii. E 1 b Luc. Some Planet strike him dead.
1636 H. Burton Divine Trag. 18 And before he had done ringing, he was strucke sicke, and a while after dyed.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1064 Confounded long they sate, as struck'n mute. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses x. 44 He got a great Cold, that had struck him deaf of one Ear.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xvii. 245 A young Fellow,..was struck blind all of a sudden.
absolute.1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 144 The nights are wholesome, then no planet strikes [printed frikes],..nor Witch hath powre to charme.figurative.1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. E4 They being but lightly sprinckled with the iuyce of the Hop, become sencelesse, and haue their reason strooken blind.1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. C4 Yet calme husht sleepe Strikes dumbe the snoring world.1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 209 The rule of eloquence being once corrupted was strooke dumbe.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. viii. 57 Let the concentrated flash of your Patriotism strike stealthy Scoundrelism blind, paralytic, as with a coup de soleil.
b. hyperbolically, expressing the temporary effect of fear, amazement, etc., to strike †dead, dumb, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > be afraid of [verb (transitive)] > (of fear) strike
to strike dead1533
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > frighten [verb (intransitive)] > strike with fear
to strike dead1533
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy > and make speechless
to strike dead, dumb1533
strikea1535
bedumb1634
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. v. 36 Þis wncouth sicht movit..baith þe armes with sa petuus commiseratioun, þat baith þe hostis wer strikin dvm.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiv. ii. 201 Nero stroken dead with feare [L. pavore exanimis].
1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iv. 44 Sweet heart: come hither, what if one should make Horns at Mountsurry? would it strike him iealous Through all the proofes of his chaste Ladies vertues?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. ii. 20 Alas, this parting strikes poore Louers dumbe. View more context for this quotation
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 34 Her beauty will certainly strike me dumb.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. ii. iv. 119 Next day marching it back again, through streets all struck silent.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. iv. 199 Fascination Fledgeby and Georgiana..struck each other speechless.
c. Colloquially used in jocular forms of imprecation, as strike me blind, dumb, lucky (if, but—), and various nonce-phrases. strike me pink! (slang): an exclamation of astonishment or indignation. Also (Australian and New Zealand) elliptical as strike!
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations
woeOE
dahetc1290
confoundc1330
foul (also shame) fall ——c1330
sorrow on——c1330
in the wanianda1352
wildfirea1375
evil theedomc1386
a pestilence on (also upon)c1390
woe betide you (also him, her, etc.)c1390
maldathaita1400
murrainc1400
out ona1415
in the wild waning worldc1485
vengeance?a1500
in a wanion1549
with a wanion1549
woe worth1553
a plague on——a1566
with a wanion to?c1570
with a wanyand1570
bot1584
maugre1590
poxa1592
death1593
rot1594
rot on1595
cancro1597
pax1604
pize on (also upon)1605
vild1605
peascod1606
cargo1607
confusion1608
perditiona1616
(a) pest upon1632
deuce1651
stap my vitals1697
strike me blind, dumb, lucky (if, but—)1697
stop my vitals1699
split me (or my windpipe)1700
rabbit1701
consume1756
capot me!1760
nick me!1760
weary set1788
rats1816
bad cess to1859
curse1885
hanged1887
buggeration1964
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
whatOE
well, wellOE
avoyc1300
ouc1300
ay1340
lorda1393
ahaa1400
hillaa1400
whannowc1450
wow1513
why?1520
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
what the (also a) goodyear1570
precious coals1576
Lord have mercy (on us)1581
good heavens1588
whau1589
coads1590
ay me!1591
my stars!a1593
Gods me1595
law1598
Godso1600
to go out1600
coads-nigs1608
for mercy!a1616
good stars!1615
mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616
gramercy1617
goodness1623
what next?1662
mon Dieu1665
heugh1668
criminy1681
Lawd1696
the dickens1697
(God, etc.) bless my heart1704
alackaday1705
(for) mercy's sake!1707
my1707
deuce1710
gracious1712
goodly and gracious1713
my word1722
my stars and garters!1758
lawka1774
losha1779
Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784
great guns!1795
mein Gott1795
Dear me!1805
fancy1813
well, I'm sure!1815
massy1817
Dear, dear!1818
to get off1818
laws1824
Mamma mia1824
by crikey1826
wisha1826
alleleu1829
crackey1830
Madonna mia1830
indeed1834
to go on1835
snakes1839
Jerusalem1840
sapristi1840
oh my days1841
tear and ages1841
what (why, etc.) in time?1844
sakes alive!1846
gee willikers1847
to get away1847
well, to be sure!1847
gee1851
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
doggone1857
lawsy1868
my wig(s)!1871
gee whiz1872
crimes1874
yoicks1881
Christmas1882
hully gee1895
'ullo1895
my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
strike me pink!1902
oo-er1909
what do you know?1909
cripes1910
coo1911
zowiec1913
can you tie that?1918
hot diggety1924
yeow1924
ziggety1924
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
hullo1931
tiens1932
whammo1932
po po po1936
how about that?1939
hallo1942
brother1945
tie that!1948
surprise1953
wowee1963
yikes1971
never1974
to sod off1976
whee1978
mercy1986
yipes1989
the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > exclamation of indignation [interjection]
outa1225
strike me pink!1969
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse i. 9 Well, 'tis an unspeakable pleasure to be a Man of Quality—Strike me dumb.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband ii. ii. 19 Right, Charles: And strike me Blind, but the Women of Virtue are now grown such Ideots in Love..that [etc.].
1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. II. 47 Strike me bountiful if you an't one of the modest sort!
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 164 Whereupon the two gentlemen swore, ‘strike 'em wulgar if they'd stand that..’.
1850 G. Cupples Green Hand i. 7/2 Well, strike me lucky, mates all, if the whole affair warn't a complete trap!
1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough i The very place!.. Strike me ugly, if I won't go to Market Harborough!
1896 Punch 25 Apr. 197/1 The caddie nearest me said ‘Strike me’, under his breath, and another caddie said ‘S'elp me’.
1902 E. Nesbit Five Children & It viii. 218 When he beheld the magnificent proportions of Robert he said..‘Strike me pink!’
1915 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (1916) 43 ‘Ah, strike!’ she sez. ‘I wish that I could die!’
1931 A. P. Herbert Derby Day iii. 115 Ten thousand serpents! Strike me pink! Where's that girl? She'll go to clink!
1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 116 Strike, he went crook! Who the hell was responsible? Had we been blasting fish?
1969 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 7 Sept. 10/1 He was further reported as commenting on certain African members of the Commonwealth in the words: ‘Strike me pink, they'll do me for bloody butchers.’
d. To turn as by enchantment into.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > in form or appearance > as by enchantment
strike1616
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. ii, in Wks. I. 534 Stroke into stone, almost, I am here, with tales o' thine vncle! View more context for this quotation
1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. G3 O let us not Acteon-like be strook..into the shape of Stags.
1853 C. G. F. Gore Dean's Daughter III. xlii. 300 She looked stricken into stone.
e. In past participle. Bewitched; affected by the evil eye. Also struck so, suddenly rendered motionless (as if by enchantment) in a particular attitude or grimace. dialect and slang.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > not moving [phrase] > suddenly rendered motionless in specific attitude
struck soa1849
a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 165 Whenever a child is suspected to be ‘struck’, it is thought useless to apply to a medical person.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 65/2 Keeping their toes turned out, as if they had been ‘struck so’ while taking their first dancing-lesson.
1862 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Irel. (new ed.) 39 Just then she got a pain in the small of her back, and out through her heart, as if she was struck.
1881 W. S. Gilbert Patience ii. 31 Maj. I can't help thinking we're a little stiff at it. It would be extremely awkward if we were to be ‘struck’ so.
1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 163 To be Struck Comical (popular), to be astonished.
1912 G. K. Chesterton Manalive 234 Dr. Cyrus Pym had remained for an unprecedented time with his eyes closed and his thumb and finger in the air. It almost seemed as if he had been ‘struck so’, as the nurses say.
47.
a. To prostrate mentally; in weaker sense, to shock, depress. Obsolete except in to strike all of (†on) a heap (colloquial): see heap n. 5e.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)] > severely
to kill one's heart1470
strike1598
accable1602
shatter1785
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)]
awec1225
bashc1375
palla1393
argh1393
formengea1400
matea1400
boasta1522
quail1526
brag1551
appale1563
browbeat1581
adaw1590
overdare1590
dastard1593
strike1598
disdare1612
cowa1616
dare1619
daw1631
bounce1640
dastardize1645
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hector1664
out-hector1672
huff1674
bully1685
harass1788
bullyraga1790
major1829
haze1851
bullock1875
to push (someone) around1900
to put the frighteners in, on1958
psych1963
vibe1979
1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros iii. vi. 56 The newes of Spanish wars, how wondrously, It strooke our heartes, what terrour it did breed.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. iv. sig. B9v Anotomies and other spectacles of Mortalitie haue hardned him, and hee's no more struck with a Funerall then a Graue-maker.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 144 Being strucken and fearfully affrighted at this strange..spectacle.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 29 This struck many of the enthusiasts of the King's side, as much as it exalted the Scots.
1786 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 392 He informed her of the whole affair. The Queen stood struck and motionless for some time.
1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery II. 282 On running to him, he was struck with finding he had killed one of the best horses of his own team.
†b. To cause (a person) to fall suddenly in, into, on, to (grief, perplexity, anger, amazement, etc.). Also with complement as to strike sad (frequently in Shakespeare), to strike astound. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] > cause to fall suddenly into emotion
strikec1440
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 166 A man of Egipte was stryken in-to a luste with his neghbur wyfe.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 282v He was stricken in fear of ye courageous stomake of the freashe young manne.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 37 But altogether stricken in a dumpe, you seke to be solitarye.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 14/1 Which when Hildebrandus harde, he was stroken in suche a fury, that scharsly he could kepe his hands of him.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xvii. 23 And they were stroken sadde exceedingly.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C3 Which strooke her sad,..Vntill her husbands welfare shee did heare. View more context for this quotation
1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. M3 Whose suddaine view, strook him to such amaze, As marueling a while did naught but gaze.
1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls iv. 82 The wonder strikes them all astound.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. N Ystruck with mighty rage.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 159 At this they were all of them struck into their dumps, and could not tell what to say. View more context for this quotation
1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 143 This loss of the artillery struck the Prince..into a great fury.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel IV. xii. xxvii. 195 The brave man saw before him..that crime of a coward; and into cowardice he was stricken.
c. To cause (a person) to be overwhelmed or seized with (terror, amazement, grief; rarely delight, love). Also of the feeling: To seize.In 16th cent. sometimes of a deity (cf. 46); usually of incidents, things seen or heard.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] > seize or strike (of an emotion)
assaila1393
supprisea1413
strike1533
infecta1586
seize1845
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] > strike with emotion
smitea1393
incuss1527
strike1533
incute1542
rapt?1577
fix1664
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy
awhapec1300
stonyc1330
astony1340
astonec1374
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to-stony?a1400
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stonish1488
strike1533
dazzle1561
stoyne1563
stupefy1577
stupefact1583
obstupefy1611
astound1637
petrify1667
flabbergast1773
stagnatea1798
stama1800
swarf1813
boggle1835
razzle-dazzle1886
to knock sideways1890
stupend1900
gobsmack1987
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xxi. 120 Throw quhilk þe king was strikin [v.r. stirkin] haistelie with na les fere þan hevy thocht.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 189v Alexander beeyng rauyshed with the sight of her, was soodainly striken with hotte burnyng loue.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 119 O deerest Soule: your Cause doth strike my hart With pitty, that doth make me sicke. View more context for this quotation
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. v. 130 Amazement strucke the multitude.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1645 Such other tryal I mean to shew you of my strength..As with amaze shall strike all who behold. View more context for this quotation
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. x. 129 I freely own my self to have been struck with inexpressible Delight upon hearing this Account.
1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 27 Any of these innumerable regulations, perhaps, would not have alarmed alone;..the multitude struck them with terror.
1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Prometheus Chain'd in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 18 It is a sight that strikes my friends with pity.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 225 He was struck with shame at having given way to such a paroxysm.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxi. 271 Rebecca's appearance struck Amelia with terror.
d. To cause (a feeling, etc.) to fall or come suddenly. Const. into, †in, †to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] > strike (an emotion) into (someone)
strike1583
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Cii The maiestrats also..may were..costlie ornaments..to dignifie their callings..therby to strike a terroure & feare into the harts of the people.
1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 18 b This would haue stroken such a present ioy into his heart, to heare me give sentence on such impenitent castawaies.
1611 Second Maiden's Trag. (1909) v. ii. 77 Her Constancy strikes so much firmnes in vs.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. iii. 23 It cannot be, this weake and writhled shrimpe Should strike such terror to his Enemies. View more context for this quotation
1651 tr. H. Wotton Panegyrick King Charls in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ 142 Afterwards at a solemn Tilting, I became uncertain whether you strook into the beholders more Ioy or Apprehension.
1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida v. v. sig. N2v Which..through the sad Spectators eye Strook such a terror.
1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough I. 199 [He] struck Terror and Amazement, throughout the whole Empire.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 48 He..might at any moment show himself to them in some way that would strike anguish and penitence into their hearts.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 81 His appearance will strike terror into his enemies.
VI. To make a vigorous movement (as if striking a blow).
48.
a. intransitive. To make a stroke with the limbs in swimming. Also to strike forward, out. Also transitive in to strike a stroke.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > swim > make a stroke in swimming
strike1660
1660 R. Wild Iter Boreale 9 [He] Flings out his arms and strikes some strokes to swim.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 51 Finding the Water had spent it self,..I strook forward against the Return of the Waves.
1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. ix. 36 It bore me up in such a manner, that when I struck in swimming, my legs were above the water.
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. x. 28 Through the blue Immense, Strike out all swimmers!
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 26 His first impulse on rising to the surface..was to strike out for the shore.
1888 ‘S. Tytler’ Blackhall Ghosts II. xxi. 183 He..struck out, and swam for a few yards.
figurative.1880 G. Smith Pessimism in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 210 Good men striking out against the everflowing current of evil and indifference.
b. To make a stroke with one's oar. †Also transitive.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > propel boat by oars, paddle, or pole [verb (transitive)] > row (a boat) > make a stroke
to take an oar1600
strike1725
row1769
scull1875
society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > make stroke with oar
strike1892
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 94 At once they bend, and strike their equal oars.
1789 New London Mag. Sept. 462/2 The boatmen..struck their oars and pushed on.
1892 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 26 Mar. 7/5 At this point a spurt of 8 strokes was indulged in, the rate of striking being 37 to the minute.
49.
a. Of a horse: To put down his fore feet short, close, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > move with short steps
to stick full ofc1300
to beat the dust1607
to beat upon a walk1607
strike1683
to go, walk, etc. short1753
1683 London Gaz. No. 1844/8 [He] strikes but little on a pace, but trots and gallops well.
1691 London Gaz. No. 2727/4 Lost.., a dark-brown Gelding,..strikes close before apt to cut.
1850 ‘H. Hieover’ Pract. Horsemanship 51 He will find his horse occasionally ‘strike short’, i.e. put down his fore-feet perhaps a yard short of his usual stroke or stride.
b. transitive. Of a horse: To alter his pace into (a faster movement). Also intransitive. To quicken his pace into. Also causatively to put (a horse) into a quicker pace.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > put into quicker pace
strike1816
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (transitive)] > quicken pace into
strike1816
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > trot > break into
strike1861
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 61 No sooner had the horses struck a canter than [etc.].
1823 Examiner 416/1 He struck his horses into a gallop.
1861 Temple Bar 2 71 The horses had struck into a quick sharp trot.
50. transitive. To thrust (the hand, etc.) with a sudden movement; to impel as with a blow. Cf. 36a. Also to strike out, together. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > bodily movement > move (the body or a member) [verb (transitive)] > move (a member) > suddenly
strike1607
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 478 [The lion] laying downe his eares, and striking his taile betwixt his legges, like a curre-dogge.
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. ii. 55 So saying, he struck the forefinger of his right hand against a paper which he held.
1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xxxii He struck out his right arm deprecatingly.
1885 ‘E. F. Byrrne’ Entangled I. i. viii. 128 The colonel struck his fingers together.
1892 Temple Bar Mar. 314 He struck a quick hand through a thick bundle of papers.
51.
a. intransitive. To move quickly, dart, shoot. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly
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1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 175 Hee doubted no more of that truth which strooke into his eyes.
1719 E. Young Busiris iv. 46 A sudden Pain..struck a-cross my Heart.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 307 Some un~accountable sparks of fire seemed to strike up and down the hedges.
1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet xv. 21 Upward the growing twilight strikes, The morning has begun.
†b. To pass suddenly, ‘burst’, into (a condition). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] > pass into state, become > suddenly
strike1674
1674 Govt. Tongue iii. 14 Atheism..has struck on a sudden into such reputation, that it scorns any longer to sculk.
c. To start suddenly into (a song, tune).
ΚΠ
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. x. 245 The Jester next struck into another carol.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker vii. 109 The musicians..struck into a skittish polka.
d. To thrust oneself suddenly or vigorously into (a quarrel, debate, a joint action).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > intervene between [verb (transitive)] > intervene in suddenly or vigorously
strike1828
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 65 He sees no brawl but he must strike into the midst of it.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets i. 55 Here is work for you; strike into it with manlike, soldierlike obedience.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxix. 190 He could not strike into a debate actually going on.
1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xvii Atherton..struck into the conversation again.
e. transitive (= strike into) in certain phrases. to strike an attitude: see to strike an attitude at attitude n. 2a. †to strike a bustle: to make a commotion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > be in commotion or disorder [verb (intransitive)] > cause commotion or disorder
to make work?1473
perturb1543
hurly-burly1598
to throw (also fling) the house out of (also at) the window (also windows)1602
tumultuate1611
to beat up the quarters of1670
hurricane1682
larum1729
to kick up, make, raise a stour1787
stour1811
to strike a bustle1823
to cut shindies1829
to kick up a shindy1829
hurricanize1833
rumpus1839
to raise (Old) Ned1840
to raise hell1845
fustle1891
to rock the boat1903
1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Aug. 385 I got up, struck a bustle, got up the ostler, set off, [etc.].
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lvi. 110 At the end of this quotation in dialogue, each gentleman struck an attitude.
52. intransitive.
a. Of light: To pierce through (a medium), break through (clouds, darkness). Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > shine [verb (intransitive)] > break through or flow in
strike1563
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 36 Ye sunn striking through a sixe pointed stoone, called Iris.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 6 The bright and blissfull Reformation..strook through the black and settled Night of Ignorance and Anti-christian Tyranny.
1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 295 As moonlight struck through the breaks, she put her head out of the window.
1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 43 When a lowering sun strikes through the blooms, and enhances their glories.
b. Of cold: To go through, penetrate to. literal and figurative. Also of the wind, something damp or cold, to strike chill, damp, etc.; also transitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > penetrate
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > pierce or nip (of cold)
nip1548
strike1569
1569 W. Hubbard Tragicall Hist. Ceyx & Alcione sig. Aiij There strake: A chilnes straight vnto hir hart.
1656 A. Cowley Misc. Pref., in Poems The cold of the Countrey had strucken through all his faculties.
1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes i, in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 5/1 I rather should account the plastered wall A piece of him, so chilly does it strike.
1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 101 In frosty weather the cold strikes through the slates.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vii. 279 I swam five rivers in pursuit, having on a pair of goatskin trousers, which struck me icy cold.
1887 G. M. Robins False Position III. i. 9 May felt as if the cold were striking to her heart.
1887 G. M. Robins False Position III. ix. 171 His cold voice struck miserably into her heart.
1889 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch xli The..damp of the place struck to his marrow.
1894 ‘A. St. Aubyn’ Orchard Damerel III. ii. 44 [The rooms] struck damp and chilly like a vault.
c. Of a disease: To pass inwards (leaving the surface or extremities). Cf. to strike in at Phrasal verbs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > characterize a disease [verb (intransitive)] > spread or invade
strike1843
to strike in1887
track1903
metastasize1907
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxviii. 363 When ostitis occupies the external table of the cranium, it seldom strikes inwards.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. ix. 246 But as long as they [the spots] strikes out'ards, sir..they ain't so much. It's their striking in'ards that's to be kep off.
53. transitive.
a. To cause to penetrate, impart (life, warmth, dampness), to, into, through.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > cause to penetrate
strikea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iii. 97 The yonger Brother..Strikes life into my speech, and shewes much more His owne conceyuing. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 203 Vapours..strike a very great Dampness to the Walls of the Building.
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 194 A Coat of Horse-Dung..for about six Weeks strikes a Warmth through the Boards.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. ii. 204 You have struck a damp to my Heart which has almost deprived me of Being. View more context for this quotation
1890 Mrs. H. Wood House of Halliwell II. ii. 24 The east wind had struck inflammation to the chest of a lovely child.
1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xli His voice..struck a chill into the girl's heart.
†b. ? To send out or forth (a beam of light); to cause to impinge on (cf. 62b). literal and figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > shine [verb (transitive)]
shedc1200
showa1400
yet?c1400
throw1565
reflex1590
emit1626
fling1637
projectc1645
strike1697
slip1873
shine1889
the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > specific light or shade
strike1697
fling1755
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 135 In this, four Windows are contriv'd, that strike To the four Winds oppos'd, their Beams oblique. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 435 So when the Sun by Day, or Moon by Night, Strike, on the polish'd Brass, their trembling Light.
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 246 To strike a through light into this whole matter at once.
c. To force (heat) into.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [verb (transitive)] > force (heat) into
strike1678
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 8 Wet the outside of the Fire to damp the outside, as well to save Coals, as to strike the force of the Fire into the inside.
54.
a. Of a plant, cutting, etc.: To send down or out (its roots); to put forth (its root or roots).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > have root [verb (transitive)] > take root or strike
strike1707
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 133 The best experienced Planters prefer October..that then the Hops will settle and strike Root against Spring.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 87 The hollow Earth..will..receive, nourish, and cause the same [seed] to strike its Radicle into it.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 296 Grasses which strike their roots deep in the ground.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany v. 57 The tree which strikes its roots and fibres most widely into the soil produces the most abundant fruit and foliage.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 174/1 The danthonia and sparobolus strike deep roots.
figurative.1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 261. ¶5 The Passion should strike Root, and gather Strength before Marriage be grafted on it.1893 H. D. Traill Social Eng. Introd. 45 The art of painting..had all the tenderness of an exotic. It struck no roots into our chilly soil.
b. intransitive. Of a plant, seed, cutting, piping, layer, etc.: To put forth roots. Of a root: To penetrate the soil. Also with adverbs in, down.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > root > be a root [verb (intransitive)] > grow (as root)
creep1530
strike1673
to throw out1772
1673 N. Grew Idea Phytol. Hist. ii. i. 56 Some [roots] run level,..some strike down but a little way,..others grow deep.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Saintfoin There is some seed of which not one in ten will strike.
1800 Trans. Soc. Arts 18 372 The cuttings of jasmine..strike with wonderful facility.
1841 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) 2 51 The pipings or layers..otherwise..will have become hard, and not strike quite so easily.
1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 i. 55 The roots..will strike down several feet.
1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 210 The roots will strike in deeper in search of nutriment.
1892 Cassell's Mag. Nov. 718/1 The chrysanthemum strikes so easily that, in order to get a dwarf plant, we merely take off the tops and strike them.
1892 Cassell's Mag. Nov. 718/2 In a very few days your young cuttings will have struck and commenced their growth.
figurative.1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxi. 17 Believe me, Sir, the precedent strikes deep.1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 94 The impression, if it takes root, strikes deep.1892 Sat. Rev. 30 Jan. 132/1 The taint strikes deeper.
c. transferred. Of a young oyster: (see quot. 1881).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [verb (intransitive)] > (of young oyster) attach itself to object
strike1881
1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 249 Strike, to become tenanted by living oysters; or when infant oysters attach themselves to any object they are said to ‘strike’. (Staten Island.)
d. transitive. To cause (a cutting, etc.) to root; to propagate (a plant) by means of a cutting, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > take cuttings from > cuttings: root
rooten1652
root1824
strike1842
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 251 In the case of plants which are not difficult to strike, a portion of the young shoot is cut off.
1891 New Rev. Oct. 384 She says she can strike one of the flowers and make it grow into a plant.
55.
a. To change the colour of (a substance) by chemical action into (a specified colour); to produce or assume (a specified colour) by this means.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > change of colour > change colour of [verb (transitive)]
mewa1425
transcolour1658
strike1664
turn1791
transcolorate1823
wry1866
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 74 If into the Infusion of Violets you put..the oyl of Tartar..it will presently strike it into a green Tincture.
1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 69 Artificial alom will not with galls strike a purple colour.
1682 N. Grew Disc. Colours of Plants v. iii. §28 in Anat. Plants 277 There are very few Flowers that will strike into a Blew by any Liquor.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 106 The water of the Well..though it will not turn milk, or strike with Galls, yet it takes not Soap.
1767 M. Morris in Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 23 The water..still preserved its property of striking a blue and purple with galls.
1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 87 Salt of steel..causes a fine mantling head to the porter, and strikes a fine nut-brown colour over the froth.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 280 A neutral solution of perchloride of iron strikes with morphia a very characteristic blue colour.
1862 C. O'Neill Dict. Calico Printing 24/2 A..method of dyeing by means of bichromates..by which the logwood is ‘struck’ of an intense black and fixed.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 359 We have met with some [well-water] which struck a decided brown tinge after..contact with the nitrate.
b. transferred. Of a young turkey: to strike the red (see quot. 1867).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [verb (intransitive)] > other actions (of turkey)
flirt1654
to strike the red1867
1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 526 It is a critical time for young turkeys when the fleshy tubercles begin to appear on the head, generally termed striking the red.
56.
a. transitive. To cause (a colour, dye) to take or sink in.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > dye [verb (transitive)] > fix dye
set1601
fix1665
strike1769
age1830
mordant1839
pad1839
steam calico-printing1862
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper ii. 32 Put a Lump of Butter in a Cloth, and rub it [sc. a boiled lobster] over, it will strike the Colour and make it look bright.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 642 [It] will enable the oxygen of the atmosphere to strike the dye more perfectly..into the materials.
b. intransitive. Of a dye: To sink in; also, to spread, run.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [verb (intransitive)] > sink in
strike?1790
the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [verb (intransitive)] > run
run1560
strike?1790
crock1855
bleed1862
?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 88 in School of Arts (ed. 2) To stain Wood Red. Take archal one pound, add 1–4th oil of vitriol,..to make it strike deeper, add a little more oil of vitriol.
1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia 91 Each colour should be allowed to properly strike into the leather before another is used.
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts (1885) 1st Ser. 321/2 Wash the shawl..in this [scouring] mixture... Next rinse it in salt and water, in order to prevent the colours striking.
57. transitive. To cause (herrings) to become impregnated with salt or (pork) with saltpetre in curing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > preserve with salt
salta1398
powder?c1425
corn1565
muriate1699
rouse1711
kern1721
strike1780
to dress down1843
roil1848
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 230 Vessels for striking the herrings, that is, putting them in salt for 10 or 12 days.
1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 589 The latter..is sometimes found a formidable difficulty in the way of good curing, or, as it is technically termed, striking the meat and taking the salt, the former term applying to saltpetre, and the latter to the common salt used.
VII. To impinge upon.
58.
a. intransitive. Of a moving body: To impinge upon or come into collision or contact with something else. Const. on, upon, against.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)]
strike1340
impinge1605
impact1916
1340 [see to strike together 1 at Phrasal verbs]. c1480 [see to strike together 1 at Phrasal verbs].
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §957 There would be Triall also made, of holding a Ring by a Threed in a Glasse, and telling him that holdeth it, before, that it shall strike so many times against the side of the Glasse, and no more.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. iv. 198 The Cartesians tell us, that Light is a great number of little Globules, striking briskly on the bottom of the Eye.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved x. 150 Objects compress or strike upon the Extremities of the Nerves by their Motion.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. vi. 181 If in passing through the funnel some of the powder has struck against and adhered to the inside of the neck of the flask.
1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 102 When a liquid strikes upon a solid surface in an oblique direction.
1891 E. Gerard & D. Gerard Sensitive Plant III. iii. xx. 204 The arm which had struck against the bridge was swollen.
1901 Scotsman 10 Sept. 7/1 There is a close connection between lunar darkness and the number of birds killed striking [against the glass of a lighthouse].
figurative.1846 T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered (1872) 546 Cold words of argument strike upon the face, like a sleet shower.
†b. said of a moving shadow. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. xvi. 93 Hold up the Center until the Shade of the Brass-Pin strikes on the Sight and Line of E.
†c. to strike upward: to rebound. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > rebound > [verb (intransitive)]
to pilt up againa1200
bolt?c1225
rebounda1398
redoundc1500
stot1513
to strike upward1530
band1580
recoil1591
bound1597
result1598
retort1599
resile1641
bandy1658
resiliate1755
ricochet1804
reverberate1817
kick1832
dap1851
bounce1887
bank1962
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 740/2 I stryke upwarde, I rebounde... Whan a thyng falleth strayght out of the ayre, it wyll stryke upwarde whan it falleth to the yerthe.
59.
a. transitive. To come into forcible contact or collision with.
ΚΠ
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §9 All Liquors strucken make round Circles.
1636 A. Cowley Sylva 411 As when soft westwinds strooke the garden Rose.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 348 She [sc. the dove] leaves her Life aloft, she strikes the Ground.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 172 This air strikes and affects the auditory nerves, which carry the sound to the brain.
1866 ‘Capt. Crawley’ Billiard Bk. iv. 46 Here you will see how a ball may be made to strike all six cushions.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Struck by a Sea, said of a ship when a high rolling wave breaks on board of her.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 385/2 The drum is made to revolve.., the blunt edges and external angles of the knives thereby striking the surface of the leather.
1892 Longman's Mag. July 272 The wind striking the face of the mountain.
1899 W. C. Morrow Bohemian Paris 49 His stool-legs were so loosened that when he sat down he struck the floor with a crash.
b. figurative (chiefly after Latin ferire caelum, sidera).
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 6 Each new Morne, New Widdowes howle, new Orphans cry, new sorowes Strike heauen on the face, that it resounds [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1625 T. Hawkins tr. Horace Odes (1638) i. i. 2 But let me stand a Lyrick mongst the rest, I'le strike the starry vault with raised crest.
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 370 Heroes and Heroins Shouts confus'dly rise, And base, and treble Voices strike the Skies.
1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours 73 A loud shout thrice strikes the golden stars.
†c. With adverb or phrase expressing the result. Also, to make (a hole) by impact. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)]
hita1400
strike1530
check1576
impinge1605
impinge1777
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > by breaking or impact
breakc1320
strike1632
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/2 I stryke ones foote out of joynt, je mets son pied hors du moulle.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 19 Me thought that Glocester stumbled, and in stumbling, Stroke me that thought to stay him ouer board.
1601 tr. Strange Rep. Sixe Notorious Witches A iij He had such a fal, that the huckle bone of his thigh was stroken out of ioynt.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 62 A great lake [= leak] was stricken into our Ship.
1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 20 One of our Men..had the Misfortune to be struck over-Board in handing the Fore-Sail.
60. spec. Of a ship:
a. intransitive. To hit (on or upon a rock, etc.); to collide with a rock, run aground.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > grounding of vessel > be aground [verb (intransitive)] > go aground > accidentally
runc1275
to fall on shorea1400
strike1518
shore1600
to run agrounda1616
embanka1649
strand1687
1518 H. Watson tr. Hystorye Olyuer of Castylle (Roxb.) E 3 b Vpon the thyrde daye theyr shyp stroke on grounde, by so grete force that it claue in two pyeces.
1612 R. Coverte True Rep. Englishman 23 And presently the ship strooke, which I presently went vp and told him of.
1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest i. 4 Trinc... There's a Rock upon the Star-board Bow. Steph. She strikes, she strikes!
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 17 The Ship struck abaft on a sunken Rock.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine To strike, to run ashore, or to beat upon the ground in passing over a bank or shallow.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. III. xxviii. 89 The yacht had struck bow on.
b. transitive. To hit or run upon (a rock, the ground, a mine).
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > strike (a rock, etc.)
strike1589
1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 792 This day we stroke a rocke.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 512 My sight clears, and I see his black bows strike The hidden skerry.
1913 Times 14 May 5/5 The Portuguese cruiser..struck a rock near Dumbell Island.
61.
a. Nautical. to strike ground (or soundings): to reach the bottom with a sounding line. Also transferred of a swimmer: To touch (bottom).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > [verb (transitive)] > pass into shallow water
shoal1694
to strike ground (or soundings)1726
shoalen1731
shallow1793
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (intransitive)] > sound depth > reach bottom with sounding line
to strike ground (or soundings)1726
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > swim > touch the bottom
to strike ground1875
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 66 I stood right in, the greatest part of the day, with intent to strike ground upon them [i.e. the shoals].
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 214 We struck ground with sixty-five fathom of line.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 289 To strike soundings, is to find bottom with the deep-sea-lead on coming in from sea.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. III. xxxiv. 238 Scarce had we struck soundings,..when a whole gale of wind blew down upon us.
in extended use.1875 Scribner's Monthly 30 735/1 Their steeds..now swimming, again striking bottom, and so until the hoofs of their leader struck the shore.
b. intransitive. Of water: To have (a specified depth) when sounded.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > regions of sea or ocean [verb (transitive)] > have specific depth when sounded
strike1858
1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 322 A..clear..channel appeared open, and..did not strike less than 6½ fathoms.
62.
a. transitive. Of a beam or ray of light or heat: To fall on, catch, touch.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > shine [verb (transitive)] > of light
reverberate1561
strikea1586
repercuss1592
the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > specifically of light or shade
strikea1586
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxvi. sig. Yy6v The beames thereof so strake his eyes..that [etc.].
1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge ii. 154 By reason of the reflexion of the parte strooken with the light.
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 69 In yon distant glade The Sun, refulgent, strikes the pearly stream.
1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso ix. 66 In splendour glowing, Like choicest ruby stricken by the sun.
1903 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant xiii. 184 So he leads the nag out into the middle of a ten-acre lot, where the light will strike him good and strong.
b. intransitive. Of light: To fall, impinge on.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > shine [verb (intransitive)] > shine upon or give light
beshinea1300
reflect1594
strike1662
lighten1814
the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > upon a particular place or position > specifically of light or shade
strike1662
cast1692
1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 34 The Lights of the Stable strikes on the Horse their backs.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. viii. 58 Hinder light, but from striking on it, and its Colours vanish.
1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. xxi. 209 Full on his face the moonbeam strook.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics iii. 20 Having marked the point at which the ray from S strikes.
1892 H. R. Mill Realm of Nature vii. 110 Light from the Sun..strikes on the upper atmosphere.
63.
a. transitive. Of a sound, report, etc.: To fall on, reach, or catch (the ear). †Also (? nonce-use) of an odour: To affect (the nostrils).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > [verb (transitive)] > strike (the ear)
salutea1586
strike1603
resound1641
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xii. 22 If the cracke of a musket do sodainly streeke mine eares, in a place where I least looke for it.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 421 Turne then my freshest Reputation to A sauour, that may strike the dullest Nosthrill Where I arriue. View more context for this quotation
1619 M. Drayton Legend Matilda in Poems (new ed.) 339 Hauing his Eare oft strooke with this Report.
1650 Sir H. Newton in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1904) I. 464 The sound of your sadnesse first struck my eares at Flushing, but heere it strikes my heart to know the truth of it.
1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. i. 26 So that the Glance of an Eye or a Word striking the Ear..shall conduct you to a Train of happy Sentiments.
1805 W. Wordsworth Fidelity 15 Nor shout, nor whistle strikes his ear.
1891 Strand Mag. 2 512/1 [A] scraping sound struck his quick ear.
absolute.1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxi. 13 But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
b. intransitive with on, upon.
ΚΠ
1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lvi. 562 The words..will strike upon my ears like a knell.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 270/2 A sound struck on his ear.
64. transitive. Of a thought, an idea: To come into the mind of, occur to (a person). Frequently in the phrase it strikes (or it struck) me that —.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > occur to [verb (transitive)]
strikea1616
to come across ——1673
suggest1709
to come upon ——a1712
hit1891
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 77 He was dispos'd to mirth, but on the sodaine A Romane thought hath strooke him. View more context for this quotation
1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 14 Jan. (1948) II. 602 I sd something in his Praise, when it struck me immediatly that I had made a Blunder in doing so.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) i. 26 Hold,..a thought has struck me.
1827 W. Scott Highland Widow v The first idea that struck him was, that the passenger belonged to his own corps.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 732 It strikes me that the scribe..confounded these laws.
1891 Murray's Mag. 10 732 A happy thought struck Lady Betty.
65. To impress or arrest (the eye, view, sight).
ΚΠ
1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Av Words indeed, like glaring Colours, are the first Beauties that arise, and strike the Sight.
1737 Gentleman's Mag. 7 30/1 The first Thing intended to have struck the Eye, was to have been a grand and stately Statue.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxix. 36 When the eye or the imagination is struck with any uncommon work.
1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. ii. 12 Whose appearance always strikes the eye with delight.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 196 Habit..is that sort of resemblance which strikes the eye of the beholder at first sight, without putting him to the trouble of enquiring in what it specifically consists.
1892 Cornhill Mag. July 36 That is the only object that strikes our eyes.
66.
a. Of something seen or heard: To impress strongly (a person); to appear remarkable to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > have an effect on [verb (transitive)]
gravec1374
bitec1400
rapt?1577
infecta1586
to come (also get, go) home to1625
to screw up1644
strike1672
strikea1701
impress1736
to touch up1796
to burn into1823
knock1883
hit1891
impressionize1894
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iv. 40 Bayes. Ah! I gad, that strikes me.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 50. ¶1 Being wonderfully struck with the Sight of every thing that is new or uncommon.
1764 R. Dodsley Leasowes in W. Shenstone Wks. (1777) II. 318 On the entrance into this shrubbery, the first object that strikes us is a Venus de Medicis.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 167 Those arguments..struck him..with all the force of conviction.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. iii. 73 His attendant was struck by the unusual change in his deportment.
1839 N. Wiseman Anglican Claim Apostolic Succession (1905) 89 We have been struck how the Donatists, while they did not relish this name, had no objection to the national appellation of Africans.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. x. 263 The absence in him of prejudice and partisanship..was what used to strike us most.
absolute.1716 A. Pope Epist. Jervas in J. Dryden tr. C. A. du Fresnoy Art of Painting (ed. 2) sig. A7v Thence endless Streams of fair Ideas flow, Strike in the Sketch, or in the Picture glow.1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iv. xv. 240 Things which rarely happen strike; whereas Frequency lessens the Admiration of Things.1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 123 The stile [of his History of England] is harsh; but it has something of rough vigour, which perhaps may often strike, though it cannot please.1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 6 A forest is more calculated to strike by the greatness of its aggregate.1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius i. 4 The first passage which strikes in Latin authors is that written by Pliny.
b. intransitive. To make an impression (on the mind, senses, observation).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > arouse attention [verb (intransitive)]
glimmer1561
strike1733
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 118 All spread their Charms, but charm not all alike; On diff'rent Senses diff'rent Objects strike.
1848 J. Keble Serm. Pref. 23 A plain and palpable case, and would strike on pure minds with a force like mathematical demonstration.
1887 E. F. Byrrne Heir without Heritage I. ix. 161 The obvious truth in her mother's sayings struck on her sense of the fitting.
c. transitive. To impress in a specified way; to strike one as —, to appear to one as —, to give one the impression of being —. †Also absol. (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > have an effect on [verb (transitive)]
gravec1374
bitec1400
rapt?1577
infecta1586
to come (also get, go) home to1625
to screw up1644
strike1672
strikea1701
impress1736
to touch up1796
to burn into1823
knock1883
hit1891
impressionize1894
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (transitive)]
beareOE
to look likec1390
showa1425
fantasy?1611
weara1616
strikea1701
to make likea1881
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have specific appearance [verb] > give specific impression
to strike one as1858
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 135 That it strikes the mind with an Air of Greatness.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xiv. 286 It has often struck me, as the most wonderful thing I ever read of. View more context for this quotation
1777 A. M. Storer in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & hisContemp. (1844) III. 198 I know the same thing strikes different people in many ways, but thus he seemed to me.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Now, Mrs. Dangle, didn't you say it struck you in the same light?
1802 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 410 The style of building [at Calais] strikes as being more roomy and gentlemanlike.
1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. (1872) I. 6 The French cathedral strikes one as lofty.
1888 Lady D. Hardy Dangerous Exper. II. v. 82 Her beauty struck him in a new light.
1902 Bridges To Burns xv, in Poems (1912) 388 The good man's pleasure 'tis to do 't; That's how it strikes him.
d. To impress or catch (the senses, fancy, imagination, notice, curiosity, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)]
exercisea1538
entertainc1540
replenish1548
rouse1583
catcha1586
amuse1586
detainc1595
attract1599
grope1602
concerna1616
take1634
stay1639
engage1642
meet1645
nudge1675
strike1697
hitcha1764
seize1772
interest1780
acuminate1806
arrest1835
grip1891
intrigue1894
grab1966
work1969
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > give mental shape to [verb (transitive)] > impress
strike1697
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 553 Such Truths, O king, said he, your Words contain, As strike the Sence, and all Replies are vain.
1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage 160 We ought not to..Fly out at every Thing that strikes the Fancy.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 53 There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill-pair'd, and Similes unlike.
1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. 228 I could not help staring at her, in such a way, as struck her notice.
1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1790) II. xlviii. 63 No ceremony can be better calculated for striking the senses.
1784 T. Tyers in Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 908/1 He talked much of travelling into Poland, to observe the life of the Palatines, the account of which struck his curiosity very much.
1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 71 Any moss, which..may strike the finder's fancy should be lifted..and planted in a..pot.
e. To catch the admiration, fancy, or affection of (one of the opposite sex); in pass., to be favourably impressed by (an idea, suggestion, etc.). In passive, constr. by, with, also to be struck on. Now colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [verb (transitive)]
haveeOE
weenc1000
praisec1250
setc1374
set by1393
endaunt1399
prizec1400
reverencec1400
tender1439
repute1445
to have (also make, take) regard to or that1457
to take, make, set (no) count of (upon, by)c1475
pricec1480
to make (great, etc.) account (also count, esteem, estimation, reckoning, regard, store) of1483
force1509
to look upon ——c1515
to have (also hold) in estimationc1522
to make reckoning of1525
esteem1530
regard1533
to tell, make, hold, set (great, little, no) store of1540
value1549
to make dainty of (anything)1555
reckon1576
to be struck on1602
agrade1611
respect1613
beteem1627
appreciate1648
to put, set (an) esteem, a high, low esteem upon1665
to think small beer of1816
to think the world of1826
existimate1847
reckon1919
rate1973
the mind > emotion > love > loved one > win the affection of [verb (transitive)]
endeara1586
strike1602
attach1811
to take, catch the fancy of1849
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > be affected by impression [verb (intransitive)] > favourably
strike1889
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love or infatuated with [verb (transitive)] > inflame with love or desire
enamour1303
assot1393
burna1400
shoot?1473
esprise1474
talent1486
enamorate1591
inamorate1624
smite1652
besmite1685
to be struck on1893
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E4 I haue put on good cloathes, and smugd my face, Strook a faire wench, with a smart speaking eye.
1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle iii. sig. C3 You'd aske how many shepheards she hath strooken.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. iii. 24 He seemed quite struck with Jane as she was going down the dance. View more context for this quotation
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiii. 221 Miss Ledrook..joked Miss Snevellicci about being struck with Nicholas.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat i. 17 The only one who was not struck with the suggestion was Montmorency.
1893 Family Herald 131/1 ‘I'm glad you're struck on her’, said Bob.
1938 C. P. Conigrave Walk-about ix. 50 I don't think he's too struck on my going back to Rosewood.
1940 ‘N. Shute’ Old Captivity iv. 110 I don't know that I'm so struck on this, sir.
67. intransitive. To hit or light on, upon.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] > quickly, casually
to fall on ——1533
hit1555
strikea1610
to drop (down) to or on (to)1819
a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) 166 You strike on truth in all things, sir.
1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vii. 68 [These literary men] often strike upon trains of thought, which stand written in good authors some century or so back... But they know it not; and imagine [etc.].
68.
a. transitive. To come upon, reach (a hill, river, path, etc.) in travelling; to come to (a place) in the course of one's wanderings. Also of a line: To hit, come upon (a specified point). Originally North American.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive at or reach [verb (transitive)]
to come toOE
reachOE
hita1075
ofreachlOE
catchc1330
latchc1330
recovera1375
getc1390
henta1393
win?1473
fetch1589
to fetch up1589
obtain1589
attainc1592
make1610
gaina1616
arrive1647
advene1684
strike1798
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > meet or encounter [verb (transitive)] > specific with object a thing
meeteOE
strike1798
1798 Mass. Mercury 30 Oct. in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) Thence south, such a course as will strike William Negro's house.
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) ii. 134 In about five miles we struck a beautiful hill, which bears south on the prairie.
1824 Excurs. U.S. & Canada 182 My host..put me into the proper direction for ‘striking’ the path leading to Cat's Ferry.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 324 A line drawn through the Grecian archipelago,..Southern Italy, Sicily, Southern Spain, and Portugal, will, if prolonged westward through the ocean, strike the volcanic group of the Azores.
1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine x. 221 We continued the sharp ascent, and struck a path winding..round the hill.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xxiii They struck the river within a day's ride of Rainbar.
1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign vi. 163 At length we successfully struck the spoor.
1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xxvi. 293 At 10.50 we struck the boundary line of the Limba Sehla country.
1915 Nation 30 Oct. 175 Born of pioneer parents, who struck Iowa just before the Civil War.
b. to strike town: to go into town from camp. Chiefly North American.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication [verb (intransitive)] > go into town
to strike town1902
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > go into town
to strike town1902
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxvi When the boys struck town, the proprietors and waitresses [of the saloons] stood in their doorways to welcome them.
1910 G. H. Lorimer Old Gorgon Graham (ed. 18) ii Binder got a pretty warm welcome when he struck town.
c. To come across, meet with, encounter (a person or thing) unexpectedly; also, to hit upon (the object of one's search). Chiefly U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > find suddenly or unexpectedly
espy1483
to start up1566
strike1851
surprise1890
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. viii. 122 The third day I struck a town o' sand-rats.
1877 J. F. Rusling Great West 39 On Wild-Cat Creek..we struck a Mr. Silvers.
1890 F. R. Stockton Merry Chanter xii. 114 ‘I did 'nt strike the stairs at first,’ whispered the butcher, ‘and I went too far along that upper hall.’
1892 Harper's Mag. Aug. 404/1 That's an introduction to the editor,..and you'll strike him at the office just now, if you'd like to see him.
1893 Black & White 25 Feb. 234/1 He calculated upon getting across the Bay of Biscay and striking warm, safe weather in June.
d. To come upon, find (a pocket, vein, or seam of mineral, a stratum of water, oil, etc.) in prospecting, boring, etc. to strike a bonanza (cf. bonanza n. 1). to strike it rich: to find a rich mineral deposit. Also in similar figurative phrases. to strike oil: see oil n.1 Phrases 4.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > have good fortune
light?c1225
urec1440
to fall on (also upon) one's feet1574
to fall on (also upon) one's legs1723
to strike it rich1834
to strike oil1860
to luck out1902
to hit the jackpot1910
to bottom on (also upon) gold1926
to strike lucky1951
to hit (also strike, etc.) pay dirt1953
to land on one's feet1958
society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > find rich mineral deposit
to strike it rich1834
bottom1854
society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > find rich mineral deposit
strike1834
1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 22 Feb. in Winter in West (1835) II. 47 I hear that he has lately struck a lead.
1852 L. Clappe Lett. from Calif. 216 When a company wish to reach the bedrock as quickly as possible, they sink a shaft..until they ‘strike it’.
1854 California Daily Chron. 19 May 3/7 Messrs. Emory & Bacon, just above the claim of Messrs. Meredith & Co., have also struck it rich.
1862 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) I. iii. 76 Well, if you haven't ‘struck it rich—’ that is, if the piece of rock you sent me came from a bona fide ledge—and it looks as if it did.
?1863 T. Taylor Ticket-of-leave Man iii. 47 He..had to bolt to Australia—struck an awfully full pocket at the diggings, and is paying off his old ticks like an emperor.
1865 G. W. Gesner A. Gesner's Pract. Treat. Coal (ed. 2) ii. 33 He [sc. the oil-well borer] cannot tell to a certainty that he will ‘strike oil’.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents at Home xvi. 109 At the end of two months we had never ‘struck’ a pocket.
1875 Eagle (St. John's Coll., Cambr.) IX. 340 He started ‘prospecting’, struck gold, entered his claim.
1885 Manch. Examiner 22 Sept. 4/7 A seam of coal 6 ft. thick has been struck at depths of 441 and 444 yards.
1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 698/1 Courage and hope are kept up by the expectation of ‘striking it rich’.
1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 56 He said..that as soon as he ‘struck a Bonanza’, he meant to sit around..on week-days too.
1892 Harper's Mag. May 906/2 Water is struck at from 600 to 1200 feet.
figurative and in extended use.1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxi. 180 We struck it mighty lucky.1884 Milnor (Dakota Territory) Teller 18 July Mr. B. is very enthusiastic over his location, and thinks he has struck it rich.1895 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 329 Ef I'd a smart pard..we might strike a lead of luck.1953 Economist 24 Oct. 248 Senator McCarthy may have struck pay-dirt at last.1975 Sydney Morning Herald 15 Nov. 55 West Indies batsmen struck pay dirt aplenty in the SCG yesterday.1977 A. C. H. Smith Jericho Gun vi. 85 He didn't mind a penny. It was what he had always thought he would do when he struck it.
e. intransitive. Colloquial phrase to strike lucky, to hit a vein of good fortune.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > have good fortune
light?c1225
urec1440
to fall on (also upon) one's feet1574
to fall on (also upon) one's legs1723
to strike it rich1834
to strike oil1860
to luck out1902
to hit the jackpot1910
to bottom on (also upon) gold1926
to strike lucky1951
to hit (also strike, etc.) pay dirt1953
to land on one's feet1958
1951 Sport 6 Apr. 17/1 Birmingham struck lucky because several London clubs refused to give Graham Warren a trial.
1984 Financial Times 31 Jan. 17/7 The Bush strikes lucky more often than any fringe theatre has a right to.
VIII. Senses of uncertain position.
69.
a. to strike hands (said of two parties to a bargain): To take one another by the hand in confirmation of a bargain; hence, to ratify a bargain with (another). Hence †to strike one's truth, to pledge one's truth by ‘striking hands’; †to strike hearts (nonce-use).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement [verb (intransitive)] > in a specific way
swapc1400
to strike handsc1440
clapa1593
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)] > join hands in promising
to strike one's truthc1440
c1440 Sir Eglam. 246 ‘Ȝys,’ seyde the erle, ‘here myn honde!’ Hys trowthe to hym he strake.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/2 I stryke handes, as men do that agre apon a bargen or covenant, je touche la.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Esther Apocr. xiv. 8 They haue stroken hands with their idoles, That thei wil abolish the thing that thou..hast ordained.
1606 Bp. W. Barlow One of Foure Serm. Hampton Court D 2 The Apostle Paul receiued not his function by hands either imposed or strooken, but by especiall reuelation,..The hands imposed Acts 13. were commendatiue, the right handes strooken, Gal. 1 were stipulative.
1652 J. Shirley Brothers i. i, in Six New Playes (1653) I'l find a portion for her, if you strike Affectionate heartes.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 37 This Son of Shaddai, I say, having stricken hands with his Father, and promised that he would be his servant to recover his Mansoul again, stood by his resolution. View more context for this quotation
1738 Defoe's Compl. Eng. Tradesman (ed. 4) I. xi. 112 Three things every tradesman ought to consider before he strikes hands with a stranger, that is, before he is bound for another.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 167 Bargains in Smithfield are confirmed by the striking of hands—the palms together.
1885 Times 10 Mar. 4/1 The parties had ‘struck their hands together’ in the usual Yorkshire fashion, but before the delivery of the calves.
1915 Nation (N.Y.) 10 June 642/1 Stories about McKinley or Roosevelt having struck hands in the dark with France and England.
†b. to strike (a person) luck: to give him a ‘luck-penny’ on making a bargain. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement [verb (intransitive)]
accord?a1160
to make (a) finec1325
covenantc1330
compound1419
packc1450
patisec1475
conclude1477
compone1478
bargain1483
article1526
make1530
compact1535
to dispense with1569
temporize1579
to make termsa1599
to strike (a person) luck1599
to be compromised1600
compacka1618
stipulatea1648
to come to terms1657
sort1685
paction1725
to cry off1775
pact1904
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 34 The consistorians or setled standers of Yarmouth..gather about him as flocking to hansell him and strike him good luck.
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie ii. sig. E1v Cap. Take it, h'as ouerbidden by the Sunne: binde him to his bargaine quickly. Yo Lo. Come, strike mee lucke with earnest, and draw the writings.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 39 But if that's all you stand upon, Here, strike me luck, it shall be done.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. viii. 128 I..dare not venture to make a Bargain, and strike them luck.
70.
a. [Partly from sense 69; partly after Latin ferire foedus.] To settle, arrange the terms of, make and ratify (an agreement, a treaty, covenant, truce; †marriage, †peace); esp. in phrase to strike a bargain. See also to strike up at Phrasal verbs.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement with [verb (transitive)] > make conclude or seal (an agreement)
binda1300
smitec1330
takec1330
ratify1357
knitc1400
enter1418
obligea1522
agree1523
conclude1523
strike1544
swap1590
celebrate1592
rate?1611
to strike up1646
form1736
firm1970
society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain over [verb (transitive)] > strike (a bargain)
swap1590
strike1766
1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. lxxii. sig. D vijv Yet he denyed not to stryke truce wyth hym.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades viii. 143 A noble Nimphe, with hir good king in Thrace did mariage strike.
1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. H3v While Leacherie and Lucar strike a match, Making a compound of two deadly sinnes.
1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant vii The Beasts shall strike with thee eternall Peace.
1646 H. Hammond Let. 4 Nov. in Copy of Papers betwixt Author of Pract. Catechisme & Mr. Ch. (1647) 96 The Gospel..or second Covenant, stricken with us in Christ.
1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 172 The Confederat Princes will be compelled..to strike a peace with France.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. iv. 339 Between these two..a League was struck . View more context for this quotation
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxx. 448 As soon as the bargain is struck, the property of the goods is transferred to the vendee.
1865 F. Parkman Huguenots vii, in Pioneers of France in New World 89 The compact struck, Menendez hastened to his native Asturias.
1883 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs i I struck a bargain with an old marwarri over a small stone.
1892 Good Words Oct. 658/2 We struck a truce.
b. To form (acquaintance) with. ? Obsolete except in to strike up 5 at Phrasal verbs.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > make friends with [verb (transitive)] > make acquaintance
yknowOE
knowc1175
strike1595
to get to knowa1622
1595 W. Warner tr. Plautus Menaecmi ii. i. sig. B4v If they can by any meanes strike acquaintance with him.
c. To fix (a price) by agreement. to strike the (sheriff-) fiars, to strike the (fiar-) prices (Sc. 1723–1887): see fiars n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > attach a price to [verb (transitive)] > fix by agreement
strike1526
1526 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 215 That to be done within six dayes after the striking of the said prices.
†d. intransitive. To agree (to articles or terms). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > assent > [verb (transitive)] > to articles or terms
strike1707
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 14 Batter him with Gold once, and he shall strike instantly to the most scandalous Articles that Hell can offer.
71. transitive. To balance (a book or sheet of accounts); to strike a balance: see balance n.1 17b. Also, to reach (a figure, loss, or profit) by balancing an account.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > add up and ascertain differences > balance or reconcile
strike1539
sald1588
rescounter1606
even1619
balance1622
level1660
square1815
reconcile1822
agree1882
cash1960
1539–40 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 229 And the said..Bookes, to lye vpon the Green cloth dayly, to the intent the Accomptants..may take out the solutions.., whereby they may strike their Lydgers.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 284 In striking the balance sheet, [he] found himself in consequence of the experiment, minus over 1000 dollars.
1880 Tax Cases I. 500 In striking their annual profits so as to fix the sum divisible as dividend, the Railway Company have gone upon actual expenditure, and not upon a mere estimate of probable wear and tear.
1932 Economist 16 Jan. 127/2 For years past the banks have been building up contingency reserves by appropriations made before and after striking their net profits.
1955 Times 25 Aug. 15/1 When the clearing banks struck their August figures on the 17th of this month the instructions from head offices to branches on the need to cut down advances had only been received about a week.
1980 Daily Tel. 30 July 1/4 Last year's loss..was struck after allowing for depreciation of £87 million and interest payments of £188 million.
72. To determine, estimate (an average, a mean).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > average [verb (transitive)] > determine or estimate
equate1633
strike1729
average1831
integrate1864
average1914
1729 A. Dobbs Ess. Trade Ireland 37 The Number of Years upon which each Medium is struck.
1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 i. 68 A difference in value of full 20 per cent. is often struck in the London market between the produce of contiguous dairies.
1862 Temple Bar 5 269 When a sufficient number of records have been kept, the average is struck.
1884 Manch. Examiner 30 Sept. 5/6 One has to strike a mean between the glowing accounts of fortunate settlers and the pessimistic views of its detractors.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. ciii. 480 I think, that so far as it is possible to strike an average, both the pecuniary and the social position of the American clergy must be pronounced slightly better.
73. to strike a docket: see docket n.1 6.
†74. To throw (a die) in some particular fraudulent manner. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (transitive)] > cheat
foist1545
strike1586
stop1596
top1663
palm1671
slip1711
1586 T. Newton tr. L. Daneau Dice-play F 4 b If there bee any cogging Panion..that by sleight..goeth about to help the chaunce, or strike the Dyce [L. casum aleæ moderari, aut regere conetur.]
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 11 Fourthly by Knapping, that is, when you strike a Dye dead that it shall not stir.
75. slang.
†a. transitive. To steal (goods), rob (a person); also absol. and with cognate object.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (intransitive)]
stealc725
thievec920
bribec1405
pluck?a1425
prowl1546
strike1567
to make away with1691
fake1819
snam1824
snig1862
to help oneself1868
boost1912
score1914
snoop1924
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)]
pick?c1300
takec1300
fetch1377
bribec1405
usurpc1412
rapc1415
to rap and rendc1415
embezzle1495
lifta1529
pilfer1532
suffurate1542
convey?1545
mill1567
prig1567
strike1567
lag1573
shave1585
knave1601
twitch1607
cly1610
asport1621
pinch1632
snapa1639
nap1665
panyar1681
to carry off1684
to pick up1687
thievea1695
to gipsy away1696
bone1699
make1699
win1699
magg1762
snatch1766
to make off with1768
snavel1795
feck1809
shake1811
nail1819
geach1821
pull1821
to run off1821
smug1825
nick1826
abduct1831
swag1846
nobble1855
reef1859
snig1862
find1865
to pull off1865
cop1879
jump1879
slock1888
swipe1889
snag1895
rip1904
snitch1904
pole1906
glom1907
boost1912
hot-stuff1914
score1914
clifty1918
to knock off1919
snoop1924
heist1930
hoist1931
rabbit1943
to rip off1967
to have off1974
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giiii Now we haue well bousd, let vs strike some chete, nowe we haue well dronke let us steale some thinge.
1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 8v In Figging Law..The Act doing, striking.
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. D3 The young toward scholler although perhaps he had striken some few stroks before, yet seeing [etc.].
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. D3v While hee was busie about that, the Nippe had stroken the purse.
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. Lv 1 Cut purse. Shall we venture to shuffle in amongst yon heap of Gallants, and strike?
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll4/1 To mand on the pad, and strike all the cheates.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew
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†b. intransitive. To borrow money. Obsolete.
c. To beg; also in to strike it.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)]
thigc1300
begc1384
crave1393
to go a-begged1393
prowl1530
to go (or have been) a begging1535
maund?1536
to bear the wallet1546
cant1567
prog1579
to turn to bag and wallet1582
skelder1602
maunder1611
strike1618
emendicate1623
mendicate1623
to go a-gooding1646
mump1685
shool1736
cadge1819
to stand pad1841
stag1860
bum1870
schnorr1875
panhandle1894
pling1915
stem1924
nickel-and-dime1942
1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 47 To borrow money is called striking, but the blow can hardly or neuer be recouered.
1655 J. Shirley Gentleman of Venice i. i I must borrow money, And that some call a striking.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Strike, to Beg, to Rob; also to borrow Money.
1898 M. Davitt Life & Progr. Australasia xxxv. 192 To ‘strike it’ is to beg.
d. transitive. To make a sudden and pressing demand upon (a person for a loan, etc.). Also absol. or intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > to, of, or upon someone > for something
strike1752
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > demand > make a demand upon
strike1752
1752 H. Fielding Amelia III. viii. vi. 155 The Gentleman, who, in the vulgar Language, had struck, or taken him in for a Guinea.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 8 The moment a nobleman returns from his travels..I strike for a subscription.
1893 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 263/2 It would be vastly better for him to shelve his books and go down and strike his Uncle Munday for a job.
1899 J. L. Williams Stolen Story 291 There's Billy Woods..look out, let's hurry by or he'll strike us for the price of a drink.
e. U.S. Political slang. ‘To induce (a person) to pay money on the promise of getting him votes, legislative favors, etc.’ ( D.A.E.).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe > accept bribe from
strike1859
the mind > possession > taking > extortion > practise extortion on [verb (transitive)] > extort
wringa1300
bribec1405
compela1500
extort1529
poll1559
wrest1565
scruze1590
rack1591
strain1600
squeeze1602
extorque1623
squeeze1639
screw1648
sponge1686
pinch1770
strike1894
1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 87 Strike, to get money from candidates before an election, under the pretense of getting votes for them.
1883 M. de L. Landon Wit & Humor of Age 345 He had a way of striking the politicians who wanted a favor out of the Governor.
1894 H. C. Merwin in Atlantic Monthly Feb. LXXIII. 248/2 A legislator ‘strikes’ a corporation, as I have indicated, when he introduces some bill calculated to injure it directly or indirectly; his purpose being, not to have the bill pass, but to compel the corporation to buy him off.
76.
a. (See quot. 1891.) Also, †of an electric charge, to pass as a spark (cf. sense 43a); of an electric discharge, to come into being; also transferred of the tube containing it.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric light > form arc [verb (intransitive)]
strike1777
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > of discharge: come into being [verb (intransitive)] > emit sparks
strike1777
spark1884
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > of discharge: come into being [verb (intransitive)] > form arc
strike1891
arc1893
ignite1917
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > of discharge: come into being [verb (intransitive)]
strike1929
1777 T. Cavallo Compl. Treat. Electr. iii. iii. 163 When the jar is charging, and the charge is become so high as to strike through half an inch of air.
1827 Philos. Mag. 2nd Ser. 1 344 If the distance be greater than that over which the charge can strike in the form of a spark, or with explosion.
1891 W. R. Cooper ‘Electrician’ Primers No. 44. 1 In spite of this, arc lamps sometimes start or ‘strike’ violently and repeatedly..on first being switched on.
1906 W. R. Cooper ‘Electrician’ Primers (ed. 2) Gloss. 31 When the carbons of an arc lamp separate and form an arc the lamp is said to ‘strike’, or the arc to be ‘struck’.
1929 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 7th Ser. 8 1100 The uncertain delay which occurs between the instant at which the requisite voltage is applied to the lamp and that at which the discharge strikes.
1962 J. H. Reyner & P. J. Reyner Radio Communication v. 237 Once the tube has struck, however, the current can be maintained with a somewhat lower anode potential.
b. Electroplating. To produce the beginning of (a deposit of metal).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > coat or cover with metal > with specific metal > produce deposit in electroplating
strike1894
1894 J. W. Urquhart Electro-plating (ed. 3) vi. 160 For ‘striking’ the first deposit [of nickel] two or more [batteries] are usually employed.
c. transitive. To bring (an arc) into being. Cf. sense 30a.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > discharge [verb (transitive)] > produce arc
strike1891
ignite1917
1891 [see sense 76a].
1930 Engineering 7 Feb. 173/2 Oil..played an important part in quenching the arc which was struck when those contacts were separated.
1950 Gill & Simons Mod. Welding Technique xi. 129 On occasion it may be found difficult to strike an arc.
1976 C. Bradshaw Metall. for Schools xi. 143/1 An arc is struck between the electrode and the workpiece.
77.
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a. intransitive. In the United States army: To perform menial services for an officer; to act as an officer's servant. ( Cent. Dict. 1891.) Cf. striker n. 6b.
b. U.S. Nautical. (See quot. 19521.)
ΚΠ
1952 J. V. Noel Naval Terms Dict. 212 Strike..to work for, as in..‘he is striking for chief’. Strike for..to learn the trade of.
1952 MSTS Bull. May 9/1 Few and far between are those who don't ‘strike’ for a rating during their short or long Navy career.

Phrasal verbs

With adverbs. to strike by
† transitive. To consign to oblivion. Scottish. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > deliberate forgetting, condoning > [verb (transitive)] > consign to oblivion
defacec1386
to strike by1457
efface1490
unlearna1500
obliterate1548
delete1563
oblivionize1593
dismiss1594
bury1595
oblivion1659
obliviate1661
erase1695
to go into the discard1927
cancel1990
1457 Dunfermline Reg. (Bannatyne Club) 344 All thingis concernynge þe said mater o tyme bygane strekyn by and fullely remyttyt foreuermare.
 to strike down
1. transitive. To fell (a person or animal) to the ground with a blow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > knock down > specifically a person or animal
fellOE
to strike down1470
quell1535
to run down1587
to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587
to strike up the heels of1602
level1770
silence1785
grass1814
send1822
to send to grass1845
beef1926
deck1953
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xxiii. 249 With his grete force he stroke doune that knyghte.
c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 308 Many sterne the strocke done streght.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C2 Or what fond begger, but to touch the crowne, Would with the scepter straight be stroken down ? View more context for this quotation
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 146 I was so exasperated by the pain of my ear..that, in the first transport, I struck him down.
1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xxi Burt..struck him down with a life-preserver.
1892 Temple Bar Nov. 355 The Constitutionalists..saw the sword of a conqueror ready to strike them down.
figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ii. 28 Then is sin strucke downe like an Oxe. View more context for this quotation1881 S. R. Gardiner & J. B. Mullinger Introd. Study Eng. Hist. i. iv. 74 The hope of England seemed to be struck down with Earl Simon.1976 National Observer (U.S.) 9 Oct. 7/4 A new trend in comics has stricken down many of the old taboos.
†2. To precipitate (dregs). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to precipitation
to strike down1594
precipitate1644
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 79 Dissolue some Sal Armoniacke, in some good Aquafortis, whose fæces..haue beene first striken down with some fine siluer.
†3. intransitive. To fall (on the knees). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or act of kneeling > kneel or assume kneeling posture [verb (intransitive)] > assume kneeling posture
to bend, bow, drop, fold, put the (one's) kneec950
kneec1000
to sit on one's kneesOE
to sit downa1450
to strike down1616
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale v. 332 Th' whole armie veild their pikes, soldiers and officers on knees down strikes, while hee rode vp and downe.
4. Of the sun: To send down its heat oppressively.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > be hot [verb (intransitive)] > send down heat (of sun)
to strike down1907
1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo App. i. 321 The sun strikes down very fiercely towards midday.
5. transitive. To hold invalid (chiefly in legal contexts). U.S.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity > deny the validity of
quash?a1400
disable1548
infirm1558
overrule1611
null1656
to set aside1765
to strike down1894
1894 Congress. Rec. 12 Dec. 267/1 I do not care who strikes down class legislation in this country.
1951 Federal Reporter (1952) 2nd Ser. 193 250/2 The court's opinions make abundantly clear its intention to strike down the entire arrangement.
1964 Mod. Law Rev. 28 iii. 343 Their main agreement had been struck down by the Restrictive Practices Court.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 3 Oct. 4 c/2 The decision..struck down a..Superior Court ruling.
 to strike home
1. (See home adv. 4) intransitive. To make an effective stroke or thrust with a weapon or tool. Said also of a weapon or stroke.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike or deliver blows [verb (intransitive)] > succeed in striking
hit?a1400
to strike home1590
connect1933
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike (of weapon) [verb (intransitive)] > strike with a weapon > effectively
to strike home1590
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike (of weapon) [verb (intransitive)]
glidec1275
acoupc1380
lightc1400
grate1525
to strike home1891
1590 Cobler of Caunterburie 10 Because my wife is so idle and will not strike home [with a flail], I stand with my whip to whet hir on.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 141 Courage (saith she) brave Souldiers,..Strike, and strike home, lay-on with all your mights.
a1628 R. Daborne Poor-mans Comfort (1655) iii. sig. E2 Who strikes a Lion must be sure strike home.
1695 Fletcher's Bonduca iii. i Britains, Strike Home: Revenge your Country's Wrongs.
1837 T. Campbell Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 186 Strike home, and the world shall revere us As heroes descended from heroes.
1891 Black & White Christm. No. 20/2 The arrow struck home.
figurative.1604 J. Marston Malcontent iv. iii. sig. F3v For he that strikes a great man, let him strike home.
2. Of words, etc.: To tell powerfully; to produce a strong impression.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > be affected by impression [verb (intransitive)] > have effect
to pierce one's stomach1509
reverberate1608
impose1625
bite1638
to strike home1694
to cut ice (with someone)1894
register1913
project1933
1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables vii. 234 Go and do thou likewise. Which words struck home upon his conscience.
1879 E. Dowden Southey vi. 174 The title ‘Satanic School’ struck home.
1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 5/4 Mr. Bartley's letter asking the Conservative leaders to define a policy appears to have struck home.
 to strike in
†1. intransitive. To join with (a person or party) as a co-worker, confederate, partisan, etc.; to fall in agreement with (an opinion, project, etc.). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate with for common purpose [verb (transitive)]
alliance1533
to combine a league1562
enleague1596
to strike ina1637
factiona1652
adoptate1662
to strike up1714
enjoin1734
to go in1851
train1866
to tie up1888
affiliate1949
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliii. 200 in Wks. (1640) III Would you had..Strooke in at Millan with the Cutlers there.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 18 A Servant or Slave, who has so much wit to strike in with him, and help him to dupe his Father.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Introd. 22 A shifting Adversary, that to avoid a thing which presses him, will strike in with any opinion.
1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 36 Men that will strike in with all Governments purely for the sake of Preferment.
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 117 Strike in with humbling providences, and fight not against them while ye have them.
1793 R. Hall Apol. Freedom Press 78 Ministers of that description..will be disposed on all occasions to strike in with the current of the court.
†2. Of a thing: To fit in (with), agree (with).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)]
conspirec1384
accorda1393
to stand with ——c1449
to sit with ——a1500
correspond1545
resound1575
square1583
quader1588
to comport with1591
sympathize1594
beset1597
range1600
even1602
consort1607
to run with ——1614
countenancea1616
hita1616
sympathy1615
filea1625
quadrate?1630
consist1638
commensurate1643
commensure1654
to strike in1704
jig1838
harmonize1852
chime in with1861
equate1934
to tie in1938
to tune in1938
to tie up1958
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. xii. 490 These expressions..strike in no less surprisingly..with this Ideal Hipothisis.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 415. ¶6 Every thing that is Majestick, imprints an Awfullness and Reverence on the Mind of the Beholder, and strikes in with the Natural Greatness of the Soul.
1714 R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. (ed. 2) II. 9 Sin strikes early in with our tempers and inclinations.
†3. To enter a competition for. (Cf. to go in at go v. Phrasal verbs 1, to go forth at go v. Phrasal verbs 1) Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)] > enter a contest
to strike in1632
enter1702
to go in1822
1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse iii. ii If he be mad, I will not be foolish, but strike in for a share.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1660 (1955) III. 249 I proposed the Ambassy of Constantinople for Mr. Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 Sept. (1948) I. 358 He advises me to strike in for some preferment now I have friends.
4. Of an eruption, disease: To disappear from the surface or the extremities with internal effects. †Also transitive, to drive (a disease, sweat) inwards.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > characterize a disease [verb (transitive)] > spread or invade
to strike in1584
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > characterize a disease [verb (intransitive)] > spread or invade
strike1843
to strike in1887
track1903
metastasize1907
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxliii. 280 If men did take cold outwardly, it stroke the sweate in, and immediatly killed them.
1716 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 280 The small Pox..being struck in upon him by wet & Carelessness, after they were come out.
1767 I. Bickerstaff Love in City (ed. 2) iii. vii. 60 Miss M. These are vapours, I was once troubled with them myself on the striking-in of a rash.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table vi. 153 It is very bad to have thoughts and feelings, which were meant to come out in talk, strike in, as they say of some complaints that ought to show outwardly.
1887 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 2nd Ser. 43 He lived on till Sunday..when the gout..struck in and he died.
5. To interpose actively in an affair, a contention, quarrel, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)]
to step in1474
to go (etc.) between the bark and the tree1546
to make in1575
intermediate1610
interposea1616
to put in1631
intervene1646
to strike ina1715
to wade in1905
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 423 Upon this the English struck in again: And the King talked so high, as if he would engage anew in the war.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. vi. 148 Lindesay—Guthrie—Tyrie, draw, and strike in.
1891 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 644 I can see the pennons of..many others who struck in against us for Charles of Blois.
1892 Leisure Hour June 525/1 Its editor has therefore been able to strike in in great problems..with an effect almost unexampled in journalism.
6. To interpose in a discussion or conversation with a remark, an expression of opinion, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > interruption > interrupt or interpose [verb (intransitive)]
chop in1550
to speak in a man's cast1580
to break through1659
interpose1667
interrupt1667
to break in1705
to catch up1764
to get ina1774
to strike in1791
to get a word, etc. in edgeways1824
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1728 I. 25 He..sat silent, till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation, he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. x. 259 But ere he could proceed farther, Louis arose, and struck in with a tone of..dignity and authority.
1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xlvi ‘Mark that’, Sedgett struck in.
1892 Temple Bar Sept. 130 A hesitating voice..strikes in with a timid remark.
7. To thrust in the scythe in mowing. Also transitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > reap or mow > use scythe
scythe1574
to strike out1840
to strike in1845
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > reap or mow a crop > mow with scythe > thrust in scythe
to strike in1893
1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 6 ii. 256 The mower has a cradle fixed to a scythe, and strikes in towards the standing corn.
1893 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 371 When will the reapers Strike in their sickles?
8. (See quot. 1888)
ΚΠ
1888 Sci. Amer. 9 June 352/2 A dispatch from Newfoundland says that the caplin have ‘struck in’. This means that the cod..has arrived on the banks.
 to strike off
1.
a. transitive. To cancel by or as by a stroke of a pen; to remove from a list or record. Also figurative, †to cancel, remit (an obligation). to strike off with a shilling (Scottish) = cut off (see to cut off 9 at cut v. Phrasal verbs).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > deduct [verb (transitive)]
abatec1400
rebate1425
batec1440
minishc1483
diminish?1504
detract1509
detray1509
deduct1524
defalkc1540
defalcate1541
subtray1549
derogate1561
discount1561
deduce?1566
substract1592
to strike off1597
reduct1600
subtract1610
subduct1716
to knock off1811
dock1891
shave1961
minus1963
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking
strikec1386
to rub offa1425
cancelc1440
streakc1440
cross1483
outstrike1487
line1530
to strike out1530
dash1549
to strike off1597
cancellate1664
damask1673
score1687
to run through1817
overscore1834
blue-pencil1883
stroke1885
caviar1890
to stencil out1891
to strike through1898
ex1935
x1942
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)]
fordoOE
allayOE
withdrawc1290
withclepe13..
again-callc1390
to call againc1390
repealc1390
revokec1400
unmakec1400
rive1415
annulc1425
abroge1427
uncommandc1430
discharge?a1439
retreatc1443
retract1501
cancela1513
abrogate?1520
dissolve1526
extinct1531
rescind1531
abrenounce1537
infringe1543
recall1565
unwrite1577
extinguish1590
exauctorate1593
relinquish1594
unact1594
to strike off1597
undecide1601
unpass1606
to take off1609
to draw back1610
reclaim1615
to put back1616
abrenunciate1618
unrip1622
supersedeate1641
to set off1642
unassure1643
unorder1648
to ask away1649
disdetermine1651
unbespeak1661
undecree1667
reassumea1675
off-break1702
circumduct1726
raise1837
resiliate1838
denounce1841
disorder1852
pull1937
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > set aside
to strike off1597
to set by1603
open1792
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > disinherit
disheritc1290
disheritc1330
disheriss1489
disinherita1500
exheredate1552
to strike off with a shilling1597
disheir1607
disherison1654
to cut off with a shilling1834
to cut out1891
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvi. 227 To the end it might thereby appeare that we owe to the guides of our soules euen as much as our soules are worth, although the debt of our temporall blessings should bee stricken off.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 29 Her presence, Shall quite strike of all seruice I haue done. View more context for this quotation
1662 Irish Act 14 & 15 Chas. II c. 2 §59 You are to strike off and deduct all fractions of odd acres, roods and pearches.
1690 E. Gee Jesuit's Mem. 7 Striking off such Scandalous Writers out of the rank of Historian.
1734 A. Pope Epist. to Visct. Cobham 9 Strike off his Pension.
1822 Examiner 628/1 Strike off nearly a third from the nine millions.
1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance I. 127 The loss is then said to be settled or ‘struck off’.
1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 98 If I thocht ye had ever been in a playhouse,..I'd strike ye off wi' a shillin'.
b. spec. in passive, of a medical practitioner, solicitor, etc.: to be struck off the register (see sense 13b above).
ΚΠ
1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel iv. xxi. 424 You remember the case of Jarvis, the manipulator, several years ago, when he got some cad of a doctor to anaesthetise for him. He was struck off, instanter.
1958 J. Cannan And be Villain i. 20 He'd be struck off if he was the least bit naughty.
1965 A. Christie At Bertram's Hotel xvi. 153 We still call him Dr. Stokes although he's been struck off.
1983 Times 12 Oct. 3/4 Mr Parsons is asking Mr Justice Vinelott to order that Mr Davies be struck off.
2. To cut off with a stroke of a sword, axe, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off > with a sweeping stroke
to smite offa1225
off-swipc1275
to strike offc1485
wipe1596
slash1689
to sweep off1707
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 103 Sanct petir..strake of, Malcus ere.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 870 Androu herdclay..on the hill besyde the toune Strake of his hede but ransoune.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Bbj v The adders tayle, whiche being stricke of will skippe vp and downe.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §400 An Emperor of Rome, did shoot a great Forked Arrow at an Estrich,..and strook off her head.
1839 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 96 The King gave orders to strike off his head.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 139 The branch should not be larger than 1½ in. in diameter.., otherwise it cannot be so readily struck off at one blow.
3. To produce (a picture, literary composition, etc.) quickly or impromptu; also to delineate exactly, ‘hit off’.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (transitive)] > realistically or appropriately
naturalize1603
to strike off1821
vitalize1884
society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > compose hastily
scribble1576
palter1588
to throw together1646
dash1726
dash off, out1786
to run off1809
to strike off1821
to write off1841
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose (poetry) [verb (transitive)] > improvise
improvisoa1768
improvise1808
extemporize1818
to strike off1821
1821 Examiner 235/2 A scene of unsophisticated..nature..is struck off with an unusually bold and broad pencil.
1876 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay I. iii. 134 Striking off puns..which followed each other in showers like sparks from flint.
1879 J. C. Shairp Robert Burns v. 120 A burst of inspiration which came on him in the fall of 1790, and struck off at one heat the matchless Tale of Tam o' Shanter.
4. To mark off as enumerated.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > record
scorea1400
to strike off1881
1881 J. Payn From Exile II. xxxiii. 251 She held up her plump little hand, and struck off the two items on her fingers.
5. intransitive. Of a peal of bells: To begin ringing.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)] > bells
ringc1175
knella1375
clinkc1386
clapc1440
jangle1494
toll1551
knoll1582
chime1583
troll1607
tintinnate1623
swing1645
ding-dong1659
strike1677
jow1786
clam?a1800
to ring in1818
dinglea1839
to strike offa1843
dingle dongle1858
jowl1872
tankle1894
tintinnabulate1906
tong1907
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 391/2 10s. 6d. to the ringers to ring one peal of grand bobs, which was to strike off while they were putting him into his grave.
6. To set off, contrast.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > contrariety[vi] [verb (intransitive)] > form a contrast with
strivea1387
to set off1735
antistrophize1842
to strike off1884
1884 G. Gissing Unclassed II. iv. i. 109 She exaggerated the refinement of her utterance that it might all the more strike off against the local twang.
 to strike out
1. transitive. To cancel or erase by or as by a stroke of a pen; to remove from a record, text, list, etc.; also, †to erase, to rub or wipe out.Cf. to strike out of at sense 13a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking
strikec1386
to rub offa1425
cancelc1440
streakc1440
cross1483
outstrike1487
line1530
to strike out1530
dash1549
to strike off1597
cancellate1664
damask1673
score1687
to run through1817
overscore1834
blue-pencil1883
stroke1885
caviar1890
to stencil out1891
to strike through1898
ex1935
x1942
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 740/1 I stryke out, or blotte out with a penne..joblittere.
1535 J. Mason in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 59 The ignorant preist..wolde not suffer the name of Satanas in the Masbook, butt strake itt owte and putt God in the place of itt.
1693 J. Dryden in tr. Persius Satires i. 18 (note) Floors..were strew'd with dust, or sand; in which the Numbers, and Diagrams were made and drawn, which they might strike out again at Pleasure.
1830 A. De Morgan Elem. Arith. 48 Strike out as many figures from the right of the dividend as there are ciphers at the right of the divisor.
1853 Congr. Globe 15 Feb. 627/2 Its only effect will be to strike out the salary of the Superintendent.
1861 Congr. Globe 18 Feb. 947/2 I will read the words to be stricken out.
1892 Law Times 93 414/2 The memorandum of association..should be altered by striking out certain paragraphs and substituting others therefor.
figurative.1863 Baily's Monthly Mag. Apr. 159 Sir Tatton had so repeatedly baulked the memoir men of the newspapers by his recoveries when he had been reported to be ‘struck out’.1883 Church Times 9 Nov. 813/2 Calvin did not strike out asceticism entirely from his system as Luther..did.
2. Mining. (See quot. 1778.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [verb (intransitive)] > be interrupted
to strike out1778
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis Expl. Terms 329/1 When a Lode by any Flookan..[etc.] is interrupted or cut out, they say also, ‘She is struck out,’ or, ‘She is lost.’
3. To produce or elicit as by a blow or stroke. Also intransitive for reflexive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > in other specific ways
sprengec1300
weavec1420
unwomb1594
coagulate1633
texture1694
to strike out1720
to strike out1735
transcreatea1834
peel1885
the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > elicit or call forth > forcefully
to wring out1560
to strike out1720
1720 R. Steele Conscious Lovers iii. i We must strike out some pretty Livelyhood for our selves, by closing their Affairs.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 143 He can't have thought of every thing. And something may strike out for me there.
1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 26 Every Word is emphatical, and on which ever Word you lay the Emphasis,..it strikes out a different Sense.
1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. viii. 53 Difficulties and dangers often strike out particles of genius.
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 11 The true magician's wand for striking out the most important results is induction.
4. To produce by a stroke of invention (a plan, scheme, fashion, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > in other specific ways
sprengec1300
weavec1420
unwomb1594
coagulate1633
texture1694
to strike out1720
to strike out1735
transcreatea1834
peel1885
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)]
findeOE
conceive1340
seek1340
brewc1386
divine1393
to find outc1405
to search outc1425
to find up?c1430
forgec1430
upfindc1440
commentc1450
to dream out1533
inventa1538
father1548
spina1575
coin1580
conceit1591
mint1593
spawn1594
cook1599
infantize1619
fabulize1633
notionate1645
to make upc1650
to spin outa1651
to cook up1655
to strike out1735
mother1788
to think up1855
to noodle out1950
gin1980
1735 Ld. Harrington Let. 9 Oct. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 261 But might not a third way be struck out founded upon your Idea of Security for the Succession of Tuscany?
1821 Examiner 9/2 He..struck out a speculation in oil that in one year brought him an enormous sum.
1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 329 Plans hastily struck out by a little knot of individuals.
1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn ixxvi. 669 He'd strike out a new scheme, and say carelessly, ‘Call the capital one million.’
1879 M. Pattison Milton xiii. 170 Of this difference Wordsworth was conscious when he struck out the phrase, ‘In his hand the thing became a trumpet.’
5. To represent in a working drawing or plan. Also, to sketch rapidly.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > draw [verb (transitive)] > roughly or rapidly
to shade out1591
to score out1615
to strike out1678
scribble1692
sketch1725
sketch1786
to rough in1826
cartoon1887
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 82 So shall the bounds of your Mortess be struck out on the Quarter.
1753 F. Price Brit. Carpenter (ed. 3) 45 Which not only shews the use of the pitch-board, in striking out the string-board, the newels, and rails, but [etc.].
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 325 (note) A hasty drawing throughout,..he has struck out the broken fence..with a few impetuous dashes of the hand.
1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making 28 For the working drawing we strike out a sectional view.
6. To open up, make for oneself (a path, course, line). Chiefly figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)] > found or establish > establish a state of things > for oneself
to strike out1712
1712 J. Hughes Spectator No. 554. ⁋3 He began to strike out new Tracks of Science.
1823 T. Ross tr. F. Bouterwek Hist. Spanish & Portuguese Lit. I. 229 Herrera..evinced undaunted resolution in pursuing the new path which he had struck out for himself.
1881 S. R. Gardiner & J. B. Mullinger Introd. Study Eng. Hist. i. iii. 49 Thought..had no tendency to strike out new and untrodden paths.
1884 Graphic 22 Nov. 554/1 I have struck out my own line, and made a reputation under another name.
1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 July 426/2 Tried to strike out a course in the world for myself.
7. intransitive. To go energetically.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > energetically
stretchc1275
peg1748
to strike out1847
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. xi. 199 He..struck out in the direction in which it [sc. the pitfall] lay.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xvii. 78 He struck out as though walking for a wager.
8. To hit violently, to lay about one (with the fists, a weapon, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike (of weapon) [verb (intransitive)] > strike with a weapon > on all sides
to lay about onea1500
to lay about1609
to strike out1859
1859 Habits Good Society v. 191 Strike out, strike straight, strike suddenly; keep one arm to guard, and punish with the other.
1885 ‘E. F. Byrrne’ Entangled III. ii. xxi. 197 It was this..that prompted him to strike out murderously at her.
1891 D. Russell Secret of River I. xi. 239 Striking out at the tall reeds by the river with his stick.
9. In various games. (See quots.) Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > be put out
to strike out1853
pop1885
peg1939
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > play croquet [verb (intransitive)] > hit winning post
to strike out1897
1853 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon Territory) 2 July 1/5 No doubt they will find that strikers have struck out.
1866 N.Y. Herald 28 Aug. 8/2 Pennington was third man at the bat, and struck out.
1874 H. Chadwick Base Ball Man. 56 When the batsman strikes at a fair ball three times, and fails to hit it, and the ball be caught, or it be sent to first base in time to put the player out, he ‘strikes’ out.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 254/1 (Croquet) Strike out, to hit the winning post after passing through the hoops in order.
1937 New Yorker 19 June 30 The senator had his hopes, but he struck out on three wide ‘ha's’.
1974 Los Angeles Times 13 Oct. iii. 10/2 Garvey grounded to short. Ferguson struck out.
10. To draw out the scythe in mowing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > reap or mow > use scythe
scythe1574
to strike out1840
to strike in1845
1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iv. 444 In using the scythe..the great art is to leave a short..ridge of stubble,..which is done by setting in and striking out, about five inches from the soil.
11. transitive. Of a pitcher in Baseball, to put (a batter) out by pitching three strikes to a batter. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > put out > a batter
to catch out1855
retire1870
to strike out1939
1939 E. J. Nichols Hist. Dict. Baseball Terminol. (Ph.D. thesis, Pennsylvania State Coll.) 75 Strike-out king, a pitcher who is noted for the large number of times he strikes out opposing batters.
1968 Washington Post 4 July c1/8 It was the third time in the game that he struck out the side.
1975 New Yorker 14 Apr. 92/2 He struck out two of the first three Yankee batters, without really trying his fastball.
 to strike through
transitive. To cancel (writing) by drawing a line through it.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking
strikec1386
to rub offa1425
cancelc1440
streakc1440
cross1483
outstrike1487
line1530
to strike out1530
dash1549
to strike off1597
cancellate1664
damask1673
score1687
to run through1817
overscore1834
blue-pencil1883
stroke1885
caviar1890
to stencil out1891
to strike through1898
ex1935
x1942
1898 Encycl. Laws Eng. VIII. 207 The initialling of the memorandum is struck through, and the loss is then ‘struck off’ or settled in account.
 to strike together
1. intransitive. To come into collision.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > collide
hurtle1340
to strike together1340
thrusta1400
fray1483
concura1522
shock1575
to knock together1641
intershock1650
bulgea1676
collide1700
rencounter1712
clash1715
ding1874
bonk1947
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7355 Þe noyse salle be swa hydus þare, Omang devels and þase þat salle com þider, Ryght als heven and erth strake togyder.
c1480 (a1400) St. Agatha 261 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 365 Þe erde steryt sa felloun[l]y, þat al þe cyte in til hy schuke & to-giddire strake.
2. transitive. To bring into collision.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > bring into collision
smitea1398
to knock together1398
to strike together1398
collide1621
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lvii. 173 Yf the bones of lyons ben strongly stryken togyders, fyre shall..come oute of theym.
1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 155 As two flints striken togither disburse the fier hidden in their intrayles.
 to strike under
intransitive. To give in. Scottish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in
benda1400
sink?a1513
to give over1530
to cry creak?1562
yield1576
to hold up1596
succumb1604
to give in1616
to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629
to cry cravena1634
to give up or cross the cudgels1654
incumb1656
to fall in1667
to knock under1670
to knock under board, under (the) table1692
to strike underc1730
knuckle down1735
to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860
chuck up (the sponge)1864
to throw in one's hand1893
to sky the wipe (or towel)1907
to drop one's bundle1915
to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915
to buckle up1927
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (intransitive)] > give in
descend?a1400
to give up the girdlea1400
submita1525
to give over1530
subscribe1560
yield1576
come1607
to give in1616
to give the stoop1623
buckle1642
incumb1656
to knock under board, under (the) table1692
capitulate1714
to strike underc1730
knuckle down1735
cave1844
to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860
incline1866
to give (it) best1878
give way1879
to roll over1919
c1730 A. Ramsay Daft Bargain 14 [He] lootna on till Rab strak under.
1812 P. Forbes Poems 79 (E.D.D.) To match wi' you I maunna fa', Sae I maun just strike under.
 to strike up
†1. transitive. To break or burst open. Scottish. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)]
breaka1000
forbreakc1000
shenec1000
burstc1250
disquattec1380
brasta1400
stonyc1440
to strike up1467
dirupt1548
unframe1548
disrump1581
split1597
crack1608
snap1679
fracture1767
disrupt1817
snop1849
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > force or wrench open
unspurna1300
upbreak1382
to strike up1467
to break open1594
wrench1607
force1623
spring1825
1467 in Anc. Laws Burghs Scot. (1910) II. 31 Nor that na gudis be schorne nor strikin vp in na wise in to the maisteris defalt.
1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 8 That na..man nor woman that bringis ony meill to this merket..stryk vp the samyne quhill ix houris befor none.
1541 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 109 With certificatioun to thame and thai failyie thairin thai will strik vp thair girnellis.
1579 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 134 Thatt the merchandis gudes to be laid to thair schippis be weill and discreitlie handlit and nocht strykin vp without speciall consent of the merchand.
†2. To draw or pull up, raise (a curtain, the hose, sleeves, etc.). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > draw or pull up
upbraidc1275
updrawc1300
to strike upa1475
uphalec1540
grimp1684
subduct1840
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 451 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 313 He strykes hom [sc. iij curteyns] vp with forket wande.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 377 b I stryke vp, as a man dothe his hosen, Ie amonte.
c1563 Jack Juggler (Roxb.) 13 Woll the horesoon fyght..See how he beginnith to strike vp his sleues.
3. (a) To begin to play or sing (a piece of music, a song). (b) intransitive (or absol.) To begin playing or singing. (c) intransitive. Of music: To begin to be played. Cf. 29c.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > strike up
to pipe upc1440
to strike up1549
to sound off1909
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > strike up
to strike up1549
yark1892
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > strike up > of music
to strike up1549
(a)
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Avv That when the Epilogue is done We may with franke intent, After the plaudite stryke vp Our plausible assente.
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle Prol. sig. Aii With a pot of good nale they stroake vp theyr plauditie.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. ii. sig. B I spent three spur Roials on the Fidlers for striking vp a fresh hornepipe.
1789 New London Mag. Nov. 560/2 The band struck up God save the King.
1856 H. B. Stowe Dred I. xxiii. 303 Come, father Bonnie, come forward, here, and strike up the hymn.
1890 F. Barrett Between Life & Death II. xxvi. 157 The enthusiastic Greeks strike up a chant.
(b)1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms (1566) (lxxxi. 2) 202 Strike vp with harpe and lute so sweete.1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. iv. 127 Strike vp Pipers. View more context for this quotation1769 G. White Let. 2 Jan. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 62 This bird..[begins] it's song..so exactly that I have known it strike up..just at the report of the Portsmouth evening gun.1824 Examiner 242/2 The band strikes up, the regiment presents arms.1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles i. 16 Roaming from choir to choir as each struck up in turn.(c)1829 Examiner 454/1 ‘The Rogue's march’ presently struck up.1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay v. 75 The waltz for which Glynn had been longing struck up.
4. To conclude, to make and ratify (an agreement, a treaty, bargain, etc.): = sense 70.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement with [verb (transitive)] > make conclude or seal (an agreement)
binda1300
smitec1330
takec1330
ratify1357
knitc1400
enter1418
obligea1522
agree1523
conclude1523
strike1544
swap1590
celebrate1592
rate?1611
to strike up1646
form1736
firm1970
1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. vi. 12 This match was agreed upon..and Monsieur de Dammartin was sent into England to strike it up with Edward.
1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man viii. §10. 185 Bargains being most conveniently to be struck up at such meetings.
1661 Princess Cloria i. 75 And so the present bargain was struck up between them, which she thought commodious, in respect it procured her a reprieve.
1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 438 God struck up a Covenant with the People of the Hebrews.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 178 I have just struck up a most advantageous bargain with our neighbour.
1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 5/4 The Fourth Party is endeavouring to strike up an alliance with the Irish members.
1889 Spectator 14 Dec. 831 The reason being an alliance he had struck up with the Somalis.
5. To start, set afoot (a friendship, an acquaintance, a conversation, trade, etc. with another).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)]
beginc1175
baptizec1384
to set a (on) broachc1440
open1471
to set abroachc1475
entame1477
to set afloat1559
initiate1604
first1607
principiate1613
to set afoot or on foot1615
unclap1621
inchoatea1631
flush1633
to set on1638
principatec1650
rudiment1654
auspicate1660
embryonate1666
to strike up1711
start1723
institutea1797
float1833
spark1912
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 4 May (1948) I. 260 We have struck up a mighty friendship.
1833 Q. Rev. 50 156 M. d'Haussez was..unreasonable in expecting that Miss Scott should have struck up conversation with him.
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks I. viii. 163 Undy Scott had struck up an acquaintance with Alaric Tudor.
1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. 48 We hear of his facility in striking up an acquaintance with women.
1891 B. Harte First Family Tasajara i. 22 In the mornin' you may be able to strike up a trade with somebody else.
†6. intransitive. To associate or ally oneself (with others). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate with for common purpose [verb (transitive)]
alliance1533
to combine a league1562
enleague1596
to strike ina1637
factiona1652
adoptate1662
to strike up1714
enjoin1734
to go in1851
train1866
to tie up1888
affiliate1949
1714 G. Lockhart Mem. Affairs Scotl. 383 Taking the Advantage of the Discords betwixt the Treasurer and the Whigs, [he] struck up with the latter.
1716 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed (ed. 6) 491 He spurr'd to London... Here he struck up with Sharpers, Scourers, and Alsatians.
7. to strike up the heels of: to overthrow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > knock down > specifically a person or animal
fellOE
to strike down1470
quell1535
to run down1587
to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587
to strike up the heels of1602
level1770
silence1785
grass1814
send1822
to send to grass1845
beef1926
deck1953
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. C2 Now gustie flawes strook vp the very heeles Of our maine mast.
1604 Wit of Woman sig. E2v (stage direct.) He leades him a Lauolta, and strikes vp his heeles, and there leaues him.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse iv. 83 I..strikes up his heels, binds him hand and foot,..and Commits him Prisoner to the Dog-kennel.
†8. To cause to spring up (heat, light). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > illumination > illuminate [verb (transitive)]
onlighteOE
enlightOE
alemeOE
alightOE
lightOE
belighta1200
lightena1382
clear1382
alightenc1384
lumine1387
clarify1398
shine1398
shed1412
beamc1430
enlymec1440
illumine1447
enlumine1481
illustre1490
enclear1509
elumine1532
illuminate1535
unshadow1550
illightena1555
allumine1570
eluminate1580
unnight1594
enlighten1595
to strike up1598
illume1604
luminate1623
illustrate1625
unbenight1629
emblaze1637
burn1712
alluminate1726
lamp1808
enkindle1870
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > heat or make hot [verb (transitive)] > cause (heat) to spring up
to strike up1598
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 137 Who strooke this heat vp after I was gone? View more context for this quotation
1620 I. C. Two Merry Milke-maids iv. iii. sig. N2 Your bloud moues slow and cold, and all the fire That strikes vp any heat, is in desire.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 262 Let the Court not be paued, for that striketh vp a great Heat in Summer, and much Cold in Winter.
1627 H. Leslie Serm. before His Majesty 25 The Lord strickes vp new lights in the minde.
9. intransitive. To rise up quickly, dart or spring up. †to strike up into the head: ‘to fly to the head’, intoxicate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > make drunk (of drink)
tox1637
intoxicate1687
to strike up into the head1711
to go to a person's head1808
mount1884
mickey-finn1933
mickey1946
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > rapidly
updart1791
uprush1818
to strike up1837
spiral1922
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 30 Sept. (1948) II. 374 Don't mind politicks, young women, they are not good after the waters;..they strike up into the head.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. vii. 248 The respected Travelling Party,..will perhaps please to rest itself..till the dawn strike up.
1857 J. Hamilton Lessons from Great Biogr. (1859) 157 Just then a squall struck up.
1861 Temple Bar May 261 An aromatic fragrance strikes up on my face from some passing boat.
1889 G. M. Fenn Crown & Sceptre v The faint grey light..seemed to strike up from below.
10. transitive. To pitch (a tent).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > pitch (tent or camp) [verb (transitive)]
teldc725
slayc1000
to set upc1275
pitchc1325
allodgec1330
wickc1330
streeka1340
till1362
stretch1382
pick?a1400
tent1553
stenda1600
to strike up1755
1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 136 We immediately landed, and the tents were struck up.
11. U.S. in passive (a) To be bewildered. (b) To be fascinated with or ‘gone’ on (a person of the opposite sex).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > be or become confused [verb (intransitive)]
wonder1297
confusec1350
maskera1375
studya1375
to annoy of?c1400
muse?c1430
marc1440
manga1450
puzzle1605
dunce1611
quandary1616
wavera1625
wilder1658
to scratch one's head1712
maffle1781
to strike up1844
turn1852
to fall over oneself1889
fuzz1930
to get the lines crossed1973
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love [verb (intransitive)]
lovec1230
to strike up1885
1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 116 I couldn't have helped it, I was so struck up in a heap at seeing her in sich a fix.
1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 152 I was so struck up with the room and the table that it was more than a minit afore I found out [etc.].
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham ii. 37 That young man..seem struck up on Irene? asked the Colonel.
12. (See quot. 1875.)
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Striking-up Press..A press for striking-up or raising sheet-metal in making dishes, pots, pans, cups, etc.
13. To cause (the lettering of a coin) to stand out.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > coining > coin (money) [verb (transitive)] > specific processes
reduce1581
crenel1697
mill1724
crenate1868
to strike up1883
1883 P. Gardner Types Greek Coins i. iii. 21 Sometimes the type is quite at the edge of the coin, sometimes it is confused and not fairly struck up.

Compounds

In phrases used as substantives or adjectives.
strike-a-light n. a flint used for striking fire.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > flint or steel
flinta700
firestoneeOE
pyritesOE
steelc1220
fire ironc1300
pyrite stonec1475
fire striker1483
furisonc1540
fusil1580
fire steel1585
flintstone1585
tindern iron1586
marcasite1682
briquet1823
fleerish1825
strike-a-light1870
1870 E. T. Stevens Flint Chips 588 Of the articles called ‘strike-a-light’ there is a small quantity annually exported to the East.
1870 Spectator 13 Aug. 976 Flakes..unfit for the manufacture of gun-flints are made into ‘strike-a-lights,’ for the use of the tinder-box.
1878 J. C. Southall Epoch of Mammoth xv. 272 M. de Mortillet..took the ground that ordinarily the flints found in Merovingian graves were either ‘strike-a-lights’ (pierres à feu) or amulettes.
strike-anywhere adj. that may be struck on any surface.
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1898 Daily News 4 June 7/2 Yellow phosphorus is absolutely necessary in the manufacture of ‘strike anywhere’ matches.
strike-back n. used attributively to designate the capacity of making a retaliatory nuclear strike.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [adjective] > counter-attack or retaliation
counter-offensive1952
counterforce1955
strike-back1962
1962 Listener 29 Mar. 539/2 It was clear that we would soon..have a sufficiently invulnerable strike-back nuclear capacity.
1966 U. Schwarz & L. Hadik Strategic Terminol. 44 Strike-back capability, nuclear forces which could survive an enemy first strike and then be used against him in a second strike.
strike-fire n. slang gin.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun]
bottled lightning1713
gin1713
royal bob1722
diddle1725
strike-fire1725
tittery1725
max1728
maxim1739
strip-me-naked1751
eye-water1755
sky blue1755
lightning1781
Jacky1800
ribbon1811
Daffy's elixir1821
sweet-stuff1835
tiger's milk1850
juniper1857
cream of the wilderness1858
satin1864
Twankay1900
panther1931
mother's ruin1933
needle and pin1937
1725 G. Smith Compl. Body Distilling i. 49 Geneva hath..different names and titles..: as..Tittery, Collonia, Strike-fire, &c.
strike me blind n. slang (see quots.).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > grain dishes > [noun] > rice dishes
pilau1609
mochi1616
yellow rice1655
kedgeree1662
fried rice1795
pilaf1814
risotto1821
nasi1853
arroz1858
jambalaya1872
rijsttafel1878
rice table1881
poule au riz1882
paella1892
sushi1893
rice and peas1898
omochi1899
zarda1899
strike me blind1901
pelau1907
rice tafel1910
nasi goreng1924
saffron rice1926
perlow1930
biryani1932
puto1938
cook-up1947
idli1958
jollof rice1959
pongal1961
nasi beryani1963
kimbap1966
nasi Padang1971
pilau rice1971
bibimbap1977
hand roll1982
1901 S. H. King Dog-watches 146 Rice was known as ‘strike me blind’.
1936 B. M. Adams Ships & Women viii. 180 The dish..called ‘strike-me-blind’. Boiled rice, with black-strap molasses.
strike-me-dead n. Nautical slang small beer.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > weak or inferior beer
small beer1498
small drinkc1525
tap-lash1623
pritch1673
grout1674
belch1706
whip-belly1738
penny-whip1786
swipes1796
strike-me-dead1824
inky-pinky1835
swankey1841
suds1904
near-beer1909
1824 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) 285 He had a taste for every species of fluid, from inferior ‘strike me dead,’ to the superlative grog.
strike-or-silent n. (see quot. 1875).
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Strike-or-silent (Horology), a piece in a clock which sets the striking parts in or out of action [etc.].
strike-out n. an out in baseball, called when a batter has made three strikes; also attributive and figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > putting player out > actions
K1861
double play1867
assist1877
put-out1882
force-out1896
rundown1908
pickoff1911
strike-out1911
tag1941
punch-out1973
1911 J. B. Foster How to Pitch 72 It happens to be a pitcher..of the strike-out kind.
1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 293 Wayne's opportunities to distinguish himself were few, for strike-outs were numerous.
1922 E. J. Lanigan Baseball Cycl. ii. 39/1 Another top-notcher joined them in the person of Thomas Ramsey, eminent strike-out king.
1937 Philadelphia Rec. 23 Mar. 15/1 Mr. Roosevelt has..grown into the stature of a strike-out king.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 14 May ii. 3/3 Six of his strikeouts came in those innings.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xvi. 170 After Pfc. Hiller was recalled, his case would be evaluated by a Regular Army board. Another strikeout.
strike-over n. U.S. the typing of a character on a spot occupied by a character typed previously.
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society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > typing on top of another character
strike-over1950
1950 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 3 Oct. 1/8 A patent on typewriter type designed to permit strikeovers on letters in about 11 per cent of common typing errors.
1978 W. White W. Whitman's Daybks. & Notebks. I. p. xxii Corrections, strike-overs, inserted words..I have transcribed exactly the way Whitman has left them.
strike through n. Printing (see quots.).
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > show-through
show-through1928
strike through1958
print-through1961
1958 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship 290/2 Strike through, penetration of the type impression from the verso to the recto of a page due to improper pressure or faulty makeready.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 396/2 Strike through, the name of a fault in printing in which ink printed on one side of a sheet penetrates to the other.

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figurative. To carry out an aggressive or injurious action. to strike back, to hit back, retaliate. Originally U.S.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > take or execute revenge [verb (intransitive)] > retaliate
reharm1592
retaliate1640
to strike back1959
1959 Time 17 Aug. 60/3 The nation's mature citizens are merely striking back at rock'n'roll, buying the sing-alongs.
1960 Time 4 July 51/3 Where will Edna Ferber strike next?
1968 L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 223 ‘The Herring Mavin Strikes Again!’ proclaimed the caption. The picture showed an empty jar.
1970 J. Porter (title) Dover strikes again.
1975 Daily Mirror 14 Apr. 5/4 The rapist who is terrorising a city's bed-sitter girls struck again yesterday.
1980 (title of film) The Empire strikes back.
1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 30/1 Jules Lubbock struck back against ascriptions of this sort a year ago.

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to strike out
intransitive. figurative (originally and chiefly U.S.). To fail, be unsuccessful; spec. to fail to attract a sexual partner. Cf. strike-out n. at Compounds, to strike out 9 at Phrasal verbs.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)]
withsitc1330
fail1340
defaulta1382
errc1430
to fall (also go) by the wayside1526
misthrive1567
miss1599
to come bad, or no, speedc1600
shrink1608
abortivea1670
maroon1717
to flash in the pan1792
skunk1831
to go to the dickens1833
to miss fire1838
to fall flat1841
fizzle1847
to lose out1858
to fall down1873
to crap out1891
flivver1912
flop1919
skid1920
to lay an egg1929
to blow out1939
to strike out1946
bomb1963
to come (also have) a buster1968
1946 A. M. Smith Thank you, Mr. President iv. 60 She promised to try to convince her father that such a historic meeting warranted an independently reported record. But she struck out, just as Early had.
1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 138/2 That's always a gas, and I had struck out that night.
1987 N. Spinrad Little Heroes (1989) 27 They sometimes staggered home alone..after striking out with the muchachas.
1998 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 29 Sept. b2 Checking their father's Army records, the two women struck out again when they were told a fire in 1976 destroyed a lot of records, including her father's.
2000 R. B. Parker Perish Twice (2001) 94 Usually picks up a woman... That's what he comes in for. Nurses maybe one beer at the bar until he scores or strikes out.
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